Counting the Stars

During the pandemic lockdowns, I was privileged to continue volunteering with the Stanley Park Ecology Society. It was a great way for me to get out of my house and enjoy the sunshine. I was helping them do intertidal surveys to help them evaluate the health of the intertidal zone. One way of determining this is to count how many sea stars are visible during lowest tide before the seagulls eat them. Here we have four beautiful ochre stars huddled together under a large rock. They look slimy in the photo, but they are actually really tough skinned.