{"id":9997,"date":"2022-03-31T09:39:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T16:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/?page_id=9997"},"modified":"2023-09-16T08:57:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T15:57:45","slug":"2021-02","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/published-writings-and-art\/salish-sea-stories-48-north-magazine\/2021-02\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 \u2013 9 Painted Anemone"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Anemones are mostly stationary animals that have stinging tentacles to subdue prey. Their waving arms then transport the hapless creature to a center mouth where it quickly becomes the next meal. The Painted Anemone, also known as Christmas Anemone, is one of the most common anemones around the San Juan Islands. They feed on crabs, mussels, barnacles and fish. Not every creature is fair game, as the Candy-striped Shrimp (appropriately named), seems to be immune to the sting, and so one can find a candy-stripe next to a painted, neatly tucked into the anemone\u2019s waving arms of death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Painted Anemones are about five inches tall, drama queen colored and sport about 100 tentacles arranged in circular rows. Somehow, these creatures can attack the relatively huge Sunflower Star, a star that can grow to a three-foot diameter. We don\u2019t need to dive to see these striking animals as they\u2019re commonly seen on a minus tide, drooping or hanging from sheltered rocks like a deflated balloon. They don\u2019t have bones to hold them upright when out of the water. While it seems they\u2019re \u2018stuck\u2019 in place, anchored like a plant, if extreme danger threatens, they can \u2018unstick\u2019 themselves and move away on foot. It must work, because Painted Anemones can live sixty to eighty years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Larry Eifert paints and sails the Pacific Northwest from Port Townsend. His large-scale murals can be seen in many national parks across America, and at larryeifert.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anemones are mostly stationary animals that have stinging tentacles to subdue prey. Their waving arms then transport the hapless creature to a center mouth where it quickly becomes the next meal. The Painted Anemone, also known as Christmas Anemone, is one of the most common anemones around the San Juan Islands. They feed on crabs, … Continue reading 2021 \u2013 9 Painted Anemone<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11823,"parent":6453,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9997","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9997"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11825,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9997\/revisions\/11825"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}