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Photo
Journal October 2007
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Jo
O'Keefe Copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved. Photos may be used for educational
purposes only. Contact me with inquiries.
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Australian Spotted
Jellyfish, Phyllorhiza punctata, upside down, Sunset Beach, NC,
10/30/07. Because each flip flop is 10 inches long, this specimen is
approx. 29 inches in diameter, the largest recorded at that time. It
is an invasive, nonindigenous species consuming over 12,000 gallons
of water with the phytoplankton and larvae of our species and that our
species need to survive.
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Beach Texture,
full view and close-up, Sunset Beach, NC, 10/30/07
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Sunset over Intracoastal
Waterway, Sunset Beach, NC, 10/30/07; photo taken while waiting to cross
the bridge
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Sunset over Intracoastal
Waterway, Sunset Beach, NC, 10/30/07; photo taken from center of bridge
by walking back to it after crossing and parking
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Sundown over Intracoastal
Waterway, Sunset Beach, NC, 10/30/07; photo taken from center of pontoon
bridge
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Coconut, a very
unusual find, Sunset Beach, NC, 10/26/07
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Colonial Tunicate,
order Aplousobranchia, Sunset Beach, NC, 10/28/07
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Giant Atlantic
Cockle Shell, Sunset Beach, NC, 10/24/07
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Orange Sea Whip,
an unusual find on Sunset Beach, NC, 10/28/07
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Luidia clathrata,
aboral side, Sunset Beach, NC, 10/26/07
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Luidia clathrata,
oral side, Sunset Beach, NC, 10/26/07
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Portuguese Man-o'-War,
Physalia physalis, Sunset Beach, NC, 10/26/07 -- Very large; my flip
flop is 10 inches long
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Great Blue Heron,
Sunset Beach, NC, 10/25/07
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Speckled Crab,
Sunset Beach, NC, 10/25/07
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Gulls, Sunset
Beach, NC, 10/24/07
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Black Skimmers,
many sleeping in right photo, Sunset Beach, NC, 10/24/07
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Black Skimmers,
Sunset Beach, NC, 10/24/07
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Dune Camphorweed,
Heterotheca subaxillaris, Sunset Beach, NC, 10/12/07
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These 26 spires
were built by John, left, Gary, center and Megan Kiger, right, on Sunset
Beach, NC, 10/13/07.
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Lucy from Gastonia,
NC, chasing and bringing back a ball from the surf, 10/07/07
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Lucy leaping
to catch the ball on the strand and then slowing down after the catch,
10/07/07
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Fishing rod
working while the fisherman rested, 10/07/07
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The tidal spray
crab, Plagusia depressa, Cherry Grove Beach, SC, 10/07/07
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Colonial tunicates,
Sunset Beach, NC, 10/06/07
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Ibises foraging
along causeway, Sunset Beach, NC, 10/03/07
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Raccoon accidentally
caught in cage, Carolina Shores, NC, 10/01/07
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