What's going on here? Hint: it can squirt water at you with its anus, which is a great skill.
We missed the cats, so it was time to go embrace sea cucumbers! Yup, here I am, in the dark, with a sea cucumber in the intertidal zone (which means low tide in the beachy sludges).They don't mind human touch, nothing was harmed in the taking of these pictures other than our sleep cycles.
Here are the pink warty and pink spiny sea cucumbers. Fun fact: if they get angry, they can also launch some of their internal organs at you, which is a cool skill.
It was 5am and I don't remember all of the names, so let's say Sea-potato cucumber. I wanted to bring one home as a pet, but we don't have a sludgy salt-water environment.
Continuing on the food theme, the one on the right is an apple sea cucumber (Genus Pseudocolochirus, for Raed). It has an active anus action going on for us to see.
So while a sea cucumber has no brain, and is just basically a mouth, intestines and anus (priorities), a sea anemone is a whole bunch of feedy tentacles all stuffing its central mouth/anus. Yup, that's right, facial hemorrhoids can be seen here.
Shallow water sea carpet anemones are less flowy than their deep water friends, but they're still pretty.
Marine biology is not my strength, so I have no memory of what this is. We'll call it the pleasingly symmetrical brown shallow flowerthing.
Big news! We saw our first ever nudibranch (armina nudibranch). This is apparently exciting if you're a diver, although I think most sea creatures are nude, except for maybe hermit crabs?
Are mollusks clothed? Unclear.
These guys are most definitely nude. I have no idea what they are, so I'll name them after someone I don't like: This is the Ron DeSantis worm.
I'm not sure if this is the same kind, but let's call it Le Pen-dage.
Here, we're back into familiar territory: starfish. Here are its tube feet. 
Below, cake and biscuit sea star.
Biscuit and fancy orange sea star, which I think is a crown sea star.
Knobbly sea star, just chilling and looking cool.
The guide got very excited about these flatworms, which we wouldn't have otherwise noticed. This is a blue-lined flatworm, I think Pseudoceros indicus.
This truffly lady is an Acanthozoon flatworm. She also has a combined facebutt, and can reproduce independently (asexually), thank you very much.
Worm, slug? It got confusing. Pretty sure this one has a separate face and anus.
Sea squirt, thus named as it squirts when removed from water.
Just a leaf porter crab riding a leaf. This is how they swim.
Oh my gosh, I almost forgot the purple sea sponge! Hygenic.
We saw even more creatures, including filefish and scorpion fish, but we're not underwater photographers. And then it was sunrise, so we went home.
