things on the beach

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 !

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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

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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.

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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.

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there were loads of little crabs to be found under rocks on the beach

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esther loves crabs

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so was happy to pick them up for a photo

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here’s a fush head

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and this my friends is a giant oyster type thing.  it was huge !

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and here’s something we didn’t see, but you might be interested in anyway.

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we also saw the usual collection of pretty birds flapping about !