Whenever instruments were placed in the observatory, it wasn’t long before marine life moved in. These were homes, hiding spots, surfaces to cling onto. Any perch gives the animals an advantage: it helps them catch food drifting by in the currents. Rose-pink anemones, electric-yellow sea stars, and lilac-purple octopuses had staked out the junction boxes like a luxury subdivision. At another site, a platform had been colonized by so many fluffy white anemones it was nicknamed “The Sheep.”
