Rock pools and sand at Bastion

As the tides are still low in the afternoon we took ourselves to Bastion Point to see what was around.  We stayed on the beach side of the ramp and found a few interesting items.

Two Brittle Stars (I think ) making nice.

 I'm not sure that this image shows what was intended but it was a clump of life all stuck together.  I found it impossible get them all appearing together but 1 is a largish shell (of which a second is out of frame to the right) glued to a turban-type shell (2) with its foot showing (3).  A Sea-star (4) was stuck over the back of the shells.

 A very clean Triton.

 One of the more colourful Sea Anemones I have found.

 A shield limpet.  We have been told these can be cooked like abalone and eaten.  Pass.

 Quite a few Sea Stars were off the rocks and making tracks in the sand.

 As was this winkle - the track was much deeper than the stars.

We saw this life form at Secret Beach the previous day.  This one was further from the waves and thus much easier to photograph!  From probing iNaturalist.org it appears to be some type of Sea Squirt.

We were briefly back in the area the following day and got a couple of photos of the exposed rock.  The first shows a couple of exposed pools in the top of a ridge.

 The second shows the whole reef looking towards the breakwater.