7 Feb 2019

Aslings Beach

Another fabulous beach....






The red creature is a Sea Tulip Pyura gibbosa


Also, there are mussels, barnacles,


Sea urchin with creature still inside and a few broken pink spines attached. Didn't realise there was a bonus jewel beetle in this shot- Metallic Jewel Beetle Scutiphora pedicellata


Gunns Screw Shell Gazameda gunnii


Eggs of Cartrut Shell Dicathais orbita


Violet Snail with its bubble float Janthina janthina


Flipped over to show the pale side


This one is older, no more bubble float



The food of Violet Snails: Bluebottle Physalia physalis


Two kinds of barnacles- The one with many plates is Surf Barnacle Catomerus polymerus - the one with heavily striated plates is Rose-coloured Barnacle Tesseropora rosea



Found this guy upside down on the sand- Leaf Beetle Paropsis atomaria


Sea Urchin


A very spiky little fish, bindi of the sea. Turretfish Tetrosomus sp



Westringia eremicolia