Dissolute sea creatures
I have always thought of sea stars as rigid, geometric creatures, with sharp angles and five legs pointing straight out at regular intervals from the center, kind of like this.
But usually that's not the case at all -- instead, they lie about in tidepools and draped under or over rocks, looking for all the world like they're drunk. On the bright side, a tidepool on a Malibu beach is a much less squalid place to pass out than a urine-soaked alley. (As always, these photos look much better at a larger size, so feel free to click on them to get a closer up view of the remarkably aesthetically pleasing dissolution.)
But usually that's not the case at all -- instead, they lie about in tidepools and draped under or over rocks, looking for all the world like they're drunk. On the bright side, a tidepool on a Malibu beach is a much less squalid place to pass out than a urine-soaked alley. (As always, these photos look much better at a larger size, so feel free to click on them to get a closer up view of the remarkably aesthetically pleasing dissolution.)
posted by Pangea at 9:29 AM
1 Comments:
Starfish fall into that category of things that seemed completely ordinary to me as a child but that now strike my adult self as jarringly bizarre. Perhaps it's because as a child everything is new and wondrous, so nothing is particularly so. Looking at your starfish pictures it's hard to believe such creatures could exist in our mundane world. I feel similarly about giraffes. And sharks.
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