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Diving the California Oil Rigs, Part 2
(See Diving the California Oil Rigs, Part 1 here.) This is the Spanish Shawl, a nudibranch (type of sea slug) common to Southern California. It’s tiny, only about one or two inches long. The orange appendages on its back are called cerata, which assist both in respiration and in digestion. They also store the stinging…
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A rainy morning in the garden.
It drizzled this morning for a few hours. One of the things I was looking forward to when we came to San Diego was the ability to grow fresh tomatoes year-round, but I came to find out that beach winters here are still a bit too cold for fruit. The plants have a lot of…
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A polite request.
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Urchin Skeleton
I pick up a few of these every week diving in San Diego. A good portion of the time, I forget about them in my drysuit pocket and they get crushed (they’re surprisingly fragile), but every once in a while they escape harm and make it home.
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I didn’t do it
Looking guilty in the strawberries. Update 1/14/2014: Want to see more of Carat (“Peepers”)? She is now the star of her very own blog at www.bostonterrierproblems.com