Color matching

 

 

I love how the colors of this sculpin match so many different things in the tidepool — rock gray, shell white, mussel blue, anemone green, coralline pink...even the reddish-brown markings on the tail match the encrusting algae on the rock!

Photographed in Mendocino County on 12 September 2022.

P.S.  I'm going to be giving an online presentation on Thursday night (15 September 2022) for the Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods.  I'll be telling four tidepool stories.  Everyone is welcome to join (via Zoom) — you can register here if interested: 

https://stewardscr.org/events/tales-from-the-tidepools/