Sunflower Starfish Midnight Hunt Salvador Coast

A massive sunflower starfish spreads its twenty arms across the dark sandy seabed near Salvador, its textured orange and purple skin catching the narrow beam of a lighthouse sweep. The light cuts through the midnight water, illuminating suspended particles that glitter like diamond dust in the column. Fine silt swirls gently around the creature's tube feet as it drifts forward with weightless precision. The background dissolves into deep blue shadow, leaving only the illuminated path where the starfish moves. The edge of the starfish's arm rests against a small shell fragment, highlighting the rough texture of its skin against the smooth sand.