Chitons today and two also. These are some of my favorites. You can usually only see them at low tide if you are prepared to rummage around the seaweed. ( photo / image / picture from Kildale's Garden ) ( photo / image / picture from Kildale's Garden )
I'd be more than glad to have a rummage around if I could fins some of those. They remind me of enamelled brooches. In fact the first one would appear to have tortoiseshell around the edges.
Today we see one of those animals that live in the seagrasses that are in the coastal waters. This is Phyllaplysia taylori, Taylor's Sea Hare. ( photo / image / picture from Kildale's Garden )
Sea slugs fascinate me. I've never seen any though. I'd love to see that first chiton in real life too. It's very pretty.
Two images today, Nucella lamellosa, Wrinkled whelk with eggs and then someone else trying to look like a Nucella lamellosa, a hermit crab. ( photo / image / picture from Kildale's Garden ) ( photo / image / picture from Kildale's Garden )
I remember, a long time ago, watching a hermit crab moving 'house'. It was one of the most memorable moments I've ever had. How I wish I'd had a camera with me that day.
So that's what the eggs look like. I'll show the girls and then we'll look out for them come summer. Eileen, I also saw a hermit crab moving house once, and the memory of it has stayed with me all these years.
Today we have a strange one, Flattop Seasquirt Chelyosoma productum. Only seen one of these. ( photo / image / picture from Kildale's Garden )
We go back to the chitons today with another two, Katharina tunicata, the Black Katy chiton and Mopalia ciliata, the Hairy chiton ( photo / image / picture from Kildale's Garden ) ( photo / image / picture from Kildale's Garden )
