"Sea Turtle Eating Polyps" California Coastline keeps its countless arms closed

keeps its countless arms closed during the day

" That was my answer before I ever snorkeled with a wild pod of Atlantic Spotted Dolphins on the Little Bahama Bank

award-winning cinematographer

suspended motionless underwater

"Sea Turtle Eating Polyps" California Coastline keeps its countless arms closedLoggerheads specialize in consuming large invertebrates that no one else eats, like these pipe cleaner sea pens, which are soft coral colonies of polyps attached to a tough stalk. Dawn Witheringtons work as a graphic design artist and scientific illustrator has allowed her unique access to sea animals through the scientists who intimately know their subjects. Dawns specialty is photorealistic art that captures the elusive essence of the seas most