DSC_5632 Giant shore anemone (Oulactis magna) identifiable by the lacy white ruff below the tentacles - which may be blue, mauve, orange, brown or white. The camouflaged column is decorated with shell fragments, and the large, wide disc may be brown, olive, green, pink or blue. Found in tidal pools on exposed shores, where sand has collected. Pakiri Beach *
DSC_8419 Giant shore anemone (Oulactis magna) identifiable by the lacy white ruff below the tentacles - which may be blue, mauve, orange or white. The camouflaged column is decorated with shell fragments, and the large, wide disc may be brown, olive, green, pink or blue. Found in tidal pools on exposed shores, where sand has collected. Pakiri Beach *
DSC_8402 Giant shore anemone (Oulactis magna) identifiable by the lacy white ruff below the tentacles - which may be blue, mauve, orange or white. The camouflaged column is decorated with shell fragments, and the large, wide disc may be brown, olive, green, pink or blue. Found in tidal pools on exposed shores, where sand has collected. Pakiri Beach *