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February 3, 2007
Photos from Waties Island, SC, & microscope photos of some items
Copyright 2007 Jo O'Keefe All Rights Reserved
Today, through the kindness of Coastal Carolina University, I went to uninhabited Waties Island just across the state line to search for the nonindigenous barnacle, Megabalanus coccopoma. I began my 4-hour walk with cloudy skies and ended up at sunset with a far-lower temperature and exhausted. Waties Island provides the unadulterated beauty of nature. Aside from a few barnacles, I only brought home a few very small pieces of sea weed and of a rubbery bryozoan. The coral and brittle stars were on them. |
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View
from causeway | |
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Oysters
at the causeway | Wheat
at the causeway |
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A structure once used by the Tilghman family | Eagle
or osprey nest far in the distance |
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The
hallmark trees of Waties Island | |
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Waves
of dune |
Erosion |
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| Erosion | |
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Clusters
of minute barnacles, Balanus venustus, on piling | |
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| Minute
barnacles on washed-up log | |
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A
ghost crab pot and a close-up photo of two dead stone crabs | |
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Portion
of washed-up tree covered with oysters | A
curled limb |
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| Views
of the south half of the Little River Inlet jetty. Not all of it is shown. | |
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Water
and rocks preventing inspection of jetty rocks | Close
up of area indicated by star in left photo |
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The
darkening sky as sunlight waned | |
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Two
dead stone crabs. | |
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The
large barnacle is Megabalanus coccopoma. Its size in comparison to native barnacles
is documented by those in front of it -- Balanus venustus -- and those on it. | |
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The
aboral (L) and oral (R) sides of the first brittle star | |
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The
aboral side of the second brittle star | Arms
of the second brittle star |
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Disks
of two more brittle stars | |
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