Thursday 19 April 2012

Sea potatoes and whelks

The Broch beach, like Whitelink  Bay in the last post, has been transformed by recent tides. The normally bare beach had large deposits of kelp  yesterday. Among the kelp strands were razor shells and other mysterious marine treasures... 

Whelk egg cases

A sea potato or heart urchin, the bald remains of a form of spiny sea urchin which lives for up to 10 years in burrows beneath the sand sea bed.

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