It was full moon the other day. Big moon big tide. Not only is high tide higher than average, low tide is lower. It gave me the opportunity to explore parts that are infrequently exposed.
This Eastern Reef Egret is striding among the exposed coral, in the second photo it’s doing what I was being careful not to do, stand on the hard coral. But then it weighs a lot less than me. Surrounded by hard and soft corals, crinoids, sponges, chitons and a whole load of things beyond my identification skills, it was hard to keep my mind on the bird watching.
Click on the galleries for a better look and feel free to narrow these critters down to species level in the comments.
bobmcgee 
Once again, great photos.
I’m not sure if you know of iNaturalist but it’s an app where you can take a photo of flora and fauna, put it on the iNaturalist app and someone will identify the organism for you. You could do that with the coral, should you wish. I am on the app as malbrown2
Thank you, sir. I had already posted these photos on iNaturalist. It seems to take quite a while for invertebrates to reach a conclusion. I await with interest. I also have made use of Seek. I don’t know if it works tolerably well down south but I have had too many weird suggestions up here to give it any credence. Dicot doesn’t help much and some pea found only in the Rockies engenders no confidence. Given your extensive knowledge of your local flora and fauna you would rarely use it but if you have what do you think of it?