
Creature from the Deep . . .
. . . imitating creatures from the land. Taken this summer, I have been saving this to post on Halloween. Always amazed to see what the ocean will create!
. . . imitating creatures from the land. Taken this summer, I have been saving this to post on Halloween. Always amazed to see what the ocean will create!
I have no idea what variety of jellyfish this is. It is easy, though, to imagine it as a creature from a 1950’s sci-fi ready to gobble up those poor, hapless shell fragments.
Can you see it?
Five mussels emptied of their owners, mollusk egg cases, bit of shell, and a coquina – perfectly arranged by an early morning, incoming tide.
A piece of a mussel shell positioned perfectly beside the remainders of a gull’s breakfast. Maybe I was tired, and it was just a bit too early in the morning, but it sure looked like a shark’s head going after … Continue reading