Two anemones

This morning we packed a picnic of cheese and tomato sandwiches, the cupcakes that the lesser Talpid baked yesterday and a bag of oranges, and set of north  to the Moray coast in the lashing rain
We spent most of the day at the splendid marine aquarium at Macduff. I was spoilt for choice when it came to deciding on my blip but settled on a couple of photographs of anemones.
The main photograph is of the colourful Dahlia Anemone Urticina felina. We think of Dahlias and Anemones as being flowers, but this one is a marine invertebrate animal. U. felina is found in the Arctic Ocean, the Baltic Sea, the North Sea and the northern Atlantic Ocean as far south as the Bay of Biscay and the Gulf of Maine. It can be found on rocks and boulders from the lower shore down to depths of 100 metres. It occurs in rock pools, in crevices and gullies, among the holdfasts of Laminaria spp., in caves and partly buried in gravel.
The extra is a portrait of the Fireworks Anemone Pachycerianthus multiplicatus which lives  in sheltered, sub-tidal, muddy bottoms at depths of up to 130 metres. They have a stem which extends down in the mud for up to one meter and possess up to 200 tentacles which are white, or white and brown-striped in colour. 
Fireworks anemones are restricted to a number of sea lochs on the west coast of Scotland. They are nationally scarce in the UK, Scottish populations represent 95% of all records and are of international and possibly global importance.