Monday, July 29, 2024

Painted, plumose, purple. Pizza?

Leaving Paradise Meadows, moving on. Our gallivanting took us to Brown's Bay. As always, I had to go first to see what was happening in the water below the wharf. On the blue plastic floats:

A painted anemone, Urticina crassicornis.

Another painted anemone, and kelp.

Mystery patch

I don't know what this round "underwater pizza" is. It doesn't help that the light was so bright, shining down through the water, that all the edges have rainbows. On the upper left, green algae cover either sea urchins or more anemones.

A narrow-ribbed kelp. Maybe Alaria marginata.

Kelp-encrusdting bryozoan patches on brown kelp. And a few limpets.

And on the rocks near the shore under a metre of incoming tide:

Purple starfish, Pisaster ochraceus. With a hermit crab for company.

Next: a few swimmers.

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En un dia caluroso, con el sol tan deslumbrante que me dejaba casi ciega, llegamos a Brown's Bay. Lo primero que hicimos, como siempre, fue ir a investigar lo que pasaba en el agua debajo de los muelles. En los flotadores de plástico azul, vimos:
  1. Una anémona "pintada", Urticina crassicornis.
  2. Otra anémona pintada, con quelpo.
  3. No sé que cosa es esto; tal vez algo que se perdió, con criaturas nuevas creciendo en su lugar. Es difícil ver, también por la luz tan brillante que hace que todo esté rodeado de arcos iris. A la izquierda, unas hojas de alga verde cubren tal vez un erizo de mar.
  4. Quelpo. Creo que es Alaria marginata.
  5. Y otro tipo de quelpo, con sus colonias del briozoo Membranipora serilamella. Y unas lapas.
  6. Y en la playa, bajo un metro de la marea que venía subiendo, una estrella de mar, Pisastre ochraceus. Con un pequeño cangrejo ermitaño.
Mañana; pescaditos y medusas.

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