Marine Life of Liberty Bay in Poulsbo, Washington USA
Our bay has a lot of different starfish which we like to find in the tidepools of our bay. The picture below shows me and my friends playing with them on a record low tide day. You must put them back and be real careful if you find any yourself. Check out this STARFISH  page for a neat place to study starfish or MORE STARFISH for a cool place to visit. Click your BACK button of your browser to return to our website.

The Marine Science Society of the Pacific Northwest has created an interactive tutorial to teach kids about our Pacific Northwest Intertidal Zone.Check out www.poulsbomsc.org and click on "Tutorial" to travel with a marine biologist and his daughter and learn about marine life in our bay.
What kind of eyes does a starfish have?  From the look of it, you might think that a starfish has no eyes.But in fact, it has an eye on the end of each arm.  Most starfish have five arms, so they also have five eyes, but some starfish have as many as twenty arms (or more), and as many eyes. The eyes of a starfish are  a tiny spot of red pigment that is sensitive to light.  Nerves run from the pigment spots to the starfish's central nerve ring.The signals from the eyespots affect the animal's behavior, enabling it to avoid light that is too bright and change its light preferences according to the time of day, water chemistry, and other factors.Since a starfish has no brain, it would not be able to make much use of images, even if its eyes were able to form them.
Click on the crab to hear the Mock Turtle's Story


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