Have you ever explored the tide pools at the north end of the beach at Cape Kiwanda in Pacific City? If you have, you may have encountered beds of large, purplish-black California mussels, the favorite food of the orange, brown or purple sea stars clinging to the rocks below them. In the pools left behind by the outgoing tide, sculpin swim around green anemones, snails graze on the algae and hermit crabs scurry along. The closer you look, the more you see.