Sad sights along the beach

Following on from Nellydee's post.

We took a drive out to the beach on Sunday are usual spot Huttoft car terrace, you can park right on the beach front here and the council usually dig the sand out after a blow and by the looks of it there must have been four foot of sand in places in fact the cycle path is still unusable.

Along the strand lines here there's always lots of washed up starfish, crabs and shellfish depending on the time of year, last year the place was littered with cuttlefish bone I didn't even think we had cuttlefish on this coast.

This Sunday however was different although not as bad as further up into the Yorkshire coast with masses of lobsters stranded, here there were things in large numbers washed up that I'd not seen here before, some like the masked crab I thought were a southern species but plenty were on the beach. Sea anemone I'm sure that's what they were in there hundreds, sea mice, sun stars and other starfish to many to count. Small flat fish and not so flat fish all over, strange looking thing some of them.

There's always plenty of shells on the beach here but this time so many were still occupied and in places the smell was not good although the sanderlings didn't seem to mind.
I think the saddest part of it all were the starfish all broken up limbs ever where.

All this in just the few hundred yards I walked and the beach here goes along for as far as you can see 'almost'

here's a few photos
ian
PS I think the ID's are correct


wormy wood and bloody Henry starfish by ian robinson, on Flickr

weaver and pogge by ian robinson, on Flickr

sea mouse and masked crab by ian robinson, on Flickr

sea anemone and lobster claw by ian robinson, on Flickr

sanderlings by ian robinson, on Flickr

huttoft beach by ian robinson, on Flickr