Remember the Starfish?
Here are some pictures and a quick video of what we are used to on this beach.
(When I moved the video into the third column it got super small all the sudden. But you can make it bigger by clicking on the little square made up of four arrows pointing outwards on the right end of the video play bar.)
So all that is a lead up to this view of the high tide I ran into one morning on a walk around the park: