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Post by ianr on Jul 3, 2017 11:10:56 GMT
We'll often take a drive to the beach it's about 50 miles or so and here in Lincolnshire the beaches are long and sandy no rock pools and can look a bit barren, but of course if you open your eye's you'll always find something on the strand line. Prehaps not rare but intresting. Seems things come in cycles, always shell fish especially razorfish then crabs, jellyfish, starfish and couple of months back cuttle fish. I didn't think we got cuttle fish this far up the east coast but there were buckets of it small and large. Yesterday it was the starfish turn again with the odd sun starfish and sea potatoes. I'm not sure what the squidgy rubbery bit of seaweed next to the sea potato is but there was lots of that too. ian. by IAN ROBINSON, on Flickr 001 by IAN ROBINSON, on Flickr
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Post by aeshna5 on Jul 3, 2017 16:33:46 GMT
Great photos Ian of animals I don't tend to see.
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Post by rowanberry on Jul 3, 2017 20:32:07 GMT
Agree- those are lovely photos. I especially like that sun-burst starfish... I didn't know they could have so many legs.
I've seen sand dollars on a childhood holiday in Florida, but never a sea potato.
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Post by ianr on Jul 4, 2017 8:40:12 GMT
The sea potato is the skelly of a sea urchin the sunstar's seem to have a variable number of legs I've photos of them with 12 and 13 legs ian.
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Post by NellyDee on Jul 5, 2017 13:28:55 GMT
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Post by treehugger on Jul 6, 2017 9:51:26 GMT
Interesting pics there. So that's what the whelk case is, saw some on Sunday near Morecambe.
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Post by ianr on Jul 6, 2017 10:25:52 GMT
Ditto on the welk eggs always see them blowing in the wind. The beaches are too sandy around here to see into the water so the only fish you see are belly up on the sand or swinging on the end of someones rod and line. We do see seals quite often were not far from a major breeding beach and the odd porpoise pops up now and then. ian.
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Post by NellyDee on Jul 6, 2017 16:11:16 GMT
I think you will find that your "the squidgy rubbery bit of seaweed" Is Jelly Button, just at a different stage than the one I Photographed. It grows on rocks and hitches a ride on other small seaweed plants. It starts off slippery surfaced then as it dries out hollow and thick walled. Your one was probably a hitch hiker that had formed round another seaweed. There again I could be entirely wrong:)
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