Chained Salps are pelagic tunicates. They’re colonies of individuals, each with a nerve bundle visible through its transparent wall. This is only the second one I’ve seen here.
Chained Salp
Category Archives: In The Water
There’s something fishy going on here
This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Groups.’ See more responses here. I’m going under the water for this. Captions on the photos.
The Numbers Game #131
The idea of The Numbers Game is to enter a number into the search bar of your computer and then post a selection of the photos that turn up. This week’s number is 748. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.
Four on the fourth
I was swimming on the morning of July 4th when I saw these four Eagle Rays ahead. The three closer ones were clearly younger pups and had a good deal of curiosity about the big, clumsy creatures they’d encountered.
They were quick to show how good they were at swimming, curving around in graceful arcs, diving and soaring effortlessly.
Back and forth they went, swimming quite close at times. In the meantime, the fourth ray, which I think was probably the mother, hung around at a discreet distance, monitoring the situation. I imagined her thinking, ‘We’re never going to get anywhere if those three don’t get a move on.’
Blobs
When I’m in the water and taking photos of things out of the water, I’m never sure whether there’s water on the camera housing. In this case, these three drops appeared in the photo, but I kind of like it!
Sailfin Tang
A Sailfin Tang showing why they have that name.
This way and that
A couple of A’ama Crabs, the one much bigger than the other, skitter past each other in the wave-washed shallows. Meanwhile, the Helmet Urchins were going nowhere.
The Numbers Game #129
The idea of The Numbers Game is to enter a number into the search bar of your computer and then post a selection of the photos that turn up. This week’s number is 746. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.
Graham's Island 