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Monday, April 04, 2011

Music Monday - Valpariso and Retreat, Part II

I know Sting's version of this song, but I think Darby Devon's take is absolutely magical:


So while you are listening to 'the rolling sea', let me show you pictures of the shore...

It was low, low tide, and near the water line, many types of sea vegetation was exposed to the air. Some of it was sparse and brittle looking - like tufts on the balding head of an old wrinkled man - 

Closer to the water's edge it became thick and varied - dark and bright greens, reds and purples. Where they lay over pale stones or shells they looked like vivid translucent dyed easter eggs..

Besides the frilly seaweed, there were also the *rocks* to admire. Some decorated with barnacles, muscles, whelks and kelp strands...

Some of the rocks were beautiful on their own - look at this green-stripes on green specimen! This is not a small rock. Those are *giant* barnacles (the size of your palm) attached to the sides. I've never seen these before. They are impressive!

Another interesting sighting close to the water line were clusters of tube worm tubes sticking up from the sand.

Looking up from this cluster, there were tubes in the air as far as I could see on this section of the shore...

Tomorrow - sea animals on the sand...

1 comment:

Tanja said...

As I quickly scrolled past the youtube video, I saw your first photo of the seaweed and mistook it for a Japanese painting of rolling hills until I saw the second photo just below it. So I immediately had to scroll back again and admire the seaweed for what it really was. :)