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• Fish bones & fishing net at Rhossili

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 126
  These intricate and delicate  structures are vertebrae from a fish. They seem both complex and beautiful. They are an example of the interesting and amazing things you can find washed up on strandlines if you only take a closer look. These backbones were still articulated and joined to the head (illustrated in the ...
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• Beachcombings (2)

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 126
  Found objects from the Gower coastline. The tiny Teddy Bear with his red hat was washed up on Rhossili beach – see the picture below for how he looked when I found him. He now lives comfortably dry in the bowl shaped remains of a metal fishing float that I picked up on Whiteford Sands – “La Coquille” is ...
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• Pebbles made of iron

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 126
  Immediately recognisable because of their heavy weight, nodules of iron pyrites commonly weather out of the cliff face rocks along the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, UK. The top photograph shows an arrangement of iron pyrites pebbles from the seashore at Charmouth. These metal pebbles are composed of a mixture of iron ...
  2 days ago

• A different kind of Mermaid’s Purse

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 126
  Mermaid’s Purses become dry, black and brittle when they dry out on the beach. So they look very different from the fresh ones which are olive brown colour and translucent. The egg and embryo can often be seen within the egg case when it is fresh. These photographs show the dessicated, black egg case of a Skate ...
  3 days ago

• Submerged forest at Broughton Bay

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 126
  The ragged tree stumps and roots, strewn over the seashore at Broughton Bay on the north coast of the Gower Peninsula, are the remains of a birch tundra woodland that once covered the ancient land surface. They lie in position, just as they were growing before they were inundated. Ten thousand years ago in the ...
  3 days ago

• National Park System Quiz 74: Ranches

  
  National Parks Traveler — Authority: 591
  Lots of land in the national parks once served ranch functions, and a good deal of it still does. Let’s see if you are up to speed in this subject area. Answers are at the end of the quiz. If we catch you peeking we’ll make you ride drag on the next cattle drive and see what “eating dust” really means. ...
  4 days ago

• Important Advisory to Dog Owners Issued by Padre Island National Seashore

  
  National Parks Traveler — Authority: 591
  If youre headed to Padre Island National Seashore in Texas, leave Fido at home. The park is advising visitors not to bring dogs to the beach until further notice, after several reports of illness and deaths of coyotes and dogs. read more
  4 days ago

• Mind-blowing Sailing in St. Thomas

  
  Retirement — Authority: 132
  When selecting a vacation destination, numerous individuals and families select a destination that offers them pleasurable and relaxation, every at present.  If this is what you are looking for outside your settle, after that a St. Thomas dwell could be just for you. St. Thomas is sited in the Caribbean.  As one ...
  4 days ago

• Hantu Island an experimental site for costal protection design

  
  Pulau Hantu — Authority: 110
  Designing innovative coastal protection using ecosystem-based approaches By Peter Todd Increasing urbanisation in Singapore has resulted in extensive replacement of natural habitats with man-made habitats. A good example is the artificial seawall, that has becomes a ubiquitous feature of the coastline. Being ...
  5 days ago

• Driftwood with holes made by Gribbles & Shipworms

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 126
  The photographs in this post show a small piece of water-logged driftwood about 30 cm long and riddled with holes and tunnels caused by two different types of wood-boring sea creatures. The larger borings are about 1 cm in diameter and many are lined with a smooth calcareous material that has become stained through ...
  5 days ago

• Where The Wild Horses Are

  
  The Expeditioner Travel Magazine — Authority: 130
  Some come for the peaceful beaches, others for the pristine landscapes, but what most people remember most from visiting Assateague are the wild horses — sitting right next to you on the beach. By Elaine Casarella It was ironic that I was visiting Assateague Island National Seashore and Chincoteague National ...
  6 days ago

• Almost a Razor Shell – Pharus legumen (Linnaeus)

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 126
  A collection of paired empty shells of the bivalved marine mollusc Pharus legumen (Linnaeus). This species is similar in appearance, and closely related, to the Razor Shells. Pharus belongs to the Family Solecurtidae whereas the Razors belong to the Family Solenidae. The valves of members of both bivalve ...
  1 week ago

• Patterns in the sand after the storm (3)

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 126
  At first, all you see is the sky and the clouds reflected on the wet beach. However, if you adjust your gaze to peer through the superficial glaze of surface water, you can see the various colours and patterns. The greater the reflection, the more is hidden from the view of the passer-by admiring the more ...
  1 week ago

• Patterns in the sand after the storm (2)

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 126
  Between squally showers and dark scudding grey clouds, the sun shone momentarily and created a rainbow arching over the wide empty expanse of low tide Rhossili Bay, Gower. The sandy shore at this point was covered with fine zig-zagging ripples and a subtle blending of black streaks. © Jessica Winder and ...
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• Natural pattern of seaweed on rock (5)

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 126
  A frond of the brown seaweed Sea Oak, Halidrys siliquosa (Linnaeus) Lyngbye on limestone rock platform at Kimmeridge, Dorset, UK, on the Jurassic Coast. © Jessica Winder and Jessica’s Nature Blog, 2009. Unauthorised use and/or duplication of this material, including both text and photographs, without express ...
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• Slide Show Demonstrates Idas Power at Cape Hatteras National Seashore

  
  National Parks Traveler — Authority: 591
  As they say, a picture is worth a 1,000 words. Proof can be found in this slide show that captures the power of Tropical Storm Ida at Cape Hatteras National Seashore. read more
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• Storm Damage Update for Gulf Islands and Assateague Island National Seashores

  
  National Parks Traveler — Authority: 591
  The coastal storm dubbed Ida may have been a late bloomer, but the November storm left a mess at several parks from the Gulf Coast to the mid-Atlantic. Heres an update on the status of two parks: Gulf Islands National Seashore and Assateague Island National Seashore. read more
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• Red sediment seepage at Rhossili

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 126
  The terrible wet weather of last weekend provided an opportunity to witness close up the process which so significantly contributes to the wonderful coloured patterns in the sand at Rhossili, Gower.  These patterns have been illustrated in earlier postings, and were very much in evidence following the recent stormy ...
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• More winkles on wood at Whiteford

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 126
  The storm waves shift the sediments around Whiteford Sands. They scour the sand away from some areas and dump it in others. The base of this ancient piece of wood seemed to be embedded in sand during the summer. The storm has washed it away to reveal a layer of  cobbles and pebbles holding it fast. Hundreds of ...
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• Views of Whiteford Sands after the storm

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 126
  The day after the big storm was one of sunshine and showers. At Whiteford Sands, Gower, the tide was at its lowest ebb, the waves abated, and the sandy beach looked like glass. The blue sky with fluffy white clouds was spectacularly reflected in the mirror of the beach. The occasional large item of flotsam, such ...
  1 week ago

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