i know some of the girl’s friends read the blog, so here’s a special entry for them of nature type things we saw on and around the beach on new year’s day in the glorious sunshine !
a dead starfush (the girls also saw some living ones in the sea when they were swimming about and saved one from being washed up on the beach
this is a dead sting ray. it was a bit stinky, and you can see it’s sting looking like a long fingernail top left above its body. it’s upside down and a bit gashed up.
this is a closer-upper picture of the ‘kiwi Christmas tree’ that i mentioned in an earlier post. these trees spring in to life over the Christmas period and are amazing.
there were loads of little crabs to be found under rocks on the beach
esther loves crabs
so was happy to pick them up for a photo
here’s a fush head
and this my friends is a giant oyster type thing. it was huge !
and here’s something we didn’t see, but you might be interested in anyway.
we also saw the usual collection of pretty birds flapping about !