November 2, 2006
Copyright 2006 Jo O'Keefe All Rights Reserved
| I found these today on Sunset Beach. After I arranged them on the sand for a group photo, I discovered that my camera battery was dead. I brought them home to photograph them on the kitchen counter with a different camera. That was a productive experience. I saw the cucumbers expand, contract and change shape. I saw them settle down together and even rest upon one another -- but never stop moving. Twice one cockle lunged so far out of its shell that I jumped backward, startled. The minnows (?) are difficult to see. I couldn't see them at all when I photographed them. I simply knew they were there and took photos. They swim ahead of me at the edge of the water similar to the way hyperactive sanderlings rush forward, ceaselessly pecking. |
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| Immature
Giant Atlantic Cockle | Another
Immature Giant Atlantic Cockle |
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| Immature
Giant Atlantic Cockles | Something
pretty from a tide pool |
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Star | |
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Cucumber that spilled its gut | Sea
Cucumbers |
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| Friends | |
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| Horseshoe
Crab Exoskeletons or Molts | |
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| Dried
Exoskeleton from Tuesday | Channeled
Whelk |
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| Minnows
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