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February 6, 2007
Photos from Sunset Beach, NC, & microscope photos of some items
Copyright 2007 Jo O'Keefe All Rights Reserved
Today I walked briefly on Sunset Beach, finding beauty and a small fish. I picked up pieces of sponges that had minute crabs in them, and inadvertently brought home a live sand dollar, intending to look at worm tubes on top of it. |
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The
ocean and strand | |
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Sanderling
digging for dinner | I
am posting this photo because I like the waves! |
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Runnels | Moonfish,
Selene setapinnis |
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Brittle
star, aboral side left and oral side right | |
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| The
first of many crabs 1/16" wide found on a sponge | |
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The
second of the tiny crabs. These photos demonstrate the inability to have more
than one plane of a specimen in focus at a time | |
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| Crab
eyes and rostrum | Something
squishy found on a sponge |
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The
lunule of a sand dollar with moving tube feet | Items
on the aboral surface of a sand dollar that moved incessantly |
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Portion
of a tiny ribbed mussel | |
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