At the end of the day.

[D upton-Hackett.]

From the foreshore.

 

[Oxide Blu]

I'm afraid to click on that list picture, there -- what is it?

 

[otumay]

Beautiful shots, Derek, especially the first two. DP2?
Best,
Osman

 

[Will]

Beautiful shots Derek.

 

[pollobarca]

Derek,
lovely stuff, the second pic is marvellous. you concentrated on the sky and it works.
The last one , large size looks like a 3 fisted person clawing a way out of the sand! The shadow does it.

paul

 

[D upton-Hackett.]

I'm afraid to click on that list picture, there -- what is it?

Thanks they are just shells what kind of creature lived in them no idea, there where hundreds of them.

Disturbingly they look like fingers.

 

[D upton-Hackett.]

outmay My DP2 with very little pp in sigma pro because I'm no good doing that.

Will, thank you for your comment.

paul, always nice to receive encouraging comments.

 

[sphexx]

Thanks they are just shells what kind of creature lived in them no idea, there where hundreds of them.

Disturbingly they look like fingers.

Slipper Limpets, Crepidula fornicata, a North American immigrant.

 

[otumay]

Thanks Richard, the Latin name is a bit hot, isn't it?
Osman

 

[D upton-Hackett.]

Slipper Limpets, Crepidula fornicata, a North American immigrant.

Thanks rather a long swim or drift whichever they do.

 

[pollobarca]

I thought Crepidula Fornicata was another name for Dirty old man (Berlusconi? Me?)
You Live and Learn!

 

[otumay]

Or Casanova? Don Juan?

 

[sphexx]

I think you are all in the right area picking up on the fornicating. They are sequential hermaphrodites living in a stack [imagine spoons stacked] where the largest & oldest are female and the smaller ones at the other end of the stack are male. As the older females die and drop off, the younger males change sex to replace them.
So many animals [and even some plants] are much more inventive than humans Sorry if this is more information than you wish to know

 

[s.agar]

Getting old, time to change, but wife still alive!

I don't think I would like that anyway.


Quote from sphexx: "So many animals [and even some plants] are much more inventive than humans "

 

[otumay]

Ho ho ho, this thread is becoming more and more interesting! But, truly Richard, the life style of Crepidula Fornicata apparently is the most inventive of any living organism I've come across. Thank you for this very, very interesting information.
And you, Seyhun, what you wrote is food for blackmail...
Cheers,
Osman

 

[s.agar]

And you, Seyhun, what you wrote is food for blackmail...
Cheers,
Osman

 

[D upton-Hackett.]

And to think it all started with 4 pictures, it is amazing what fonts of knowledge are available on this forum.

Derek.

 

[otumay]

And you started it all, Derek!