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January 23, 2007
Photos from Sunset Beach, NC & microscope photos of some items
Copyright 2007 Jo O'Keefe All Rights Reserved
| Although I'm concerned about global warming, the sun never shone during my visit to Edisto Island, SC, last week nor did it shine yesterday. Although I saw hundreds of large cockle shells and scores of worm casings, I only picked up the items shown below. |
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Live
Channeled Whelk | |
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Sand
dollars with worm tubes; The one on the top left in the left photo was found closer
to the ocean. The other three were dry and at the high tide line -- unusual. The
top left one had live worms. | |
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| Giant
Atlantic Cockle Shells | Knobbed
Whelks - young |
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Dinner | The
well-eaten carcass of an adult Northern gannet |
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| Coral
on a small pen shell | Ark
shell, baby's ear, and disk dosinia shell |
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Star
coral. The cluster on the right was 3/16" wide. | |
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| Crab,
approx. 1/4", found in seaweed | |
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| Crab,
approx. 1/4", found in seaweed | |
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| Crab,
the size of am amphipod, found in seaweed | |
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| Amphipod
-- probably | Possibly
part of a siphonophore |
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Worms.
They are difficult to photograph because they move while I am using a 2-second
shutter speed to let in light. | |
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Sponge with amphipod - small section of one branch |
Sponge with debris in a fork |
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Sections
of the sponge showing what might be excurrent pores - oscula. I zoomed in further
for the right photo. | |
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A
portion of the pen shell shown far above on the left viewed through the microscope | |
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Dawn
behind my house today, January 24, while I was making this webpage | |
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