Title: "Jewels of the Sea"

(Club-tipped anemones, Corynactis, on the wreck of the "Rainbow Warrior")

Bay of Islands, New Zealand, 2000

TOTAL EDITION: 300

SIZE: 11.5" X 16.5"

(29 cm X 42 cm)

These small anemones grow in colonies in a kaleidoscope of brilliant color. They are not true anemones, but rather corallimorpharians, a "missing link" between true anemones and corals. These colonies were found competing for space with each other on the shaded underside of this shipwreck's hull. The whole underside of the ship has a colorful quilt-like appearance. A related species of this exists thousands of miles away in Monterey Bay, California. They look identical and are in the same Genus.