Starfish on Gabriola Island

"Pisaster Ochraceus"  know as the purple starfish can live to be twenty years old.  Today we found them clinging to the rocks and in the shallow waters at one of the bays on Gabriola Island.  There were purple and orange starfish.  I have never seen purple ones before and they truly did amaze me.  There were plenty of  small size mussel beds on the rocks, too.