Sea Scraps 'N Scapes

One more Pacific NW shout-out...The scraps are objects I took photos of on my last day of beach therapy in N Calif., at Clam Beach just a few miles N of my hometown...


One of countless crab shells seen on the beach...








Part of a good-sized jellyfish; I put my keys by it for perspective...there were a lot of these large purple jellyfish at a couple of the beaches in the area, not something normally seen...the tentacles are always missing, no doubt torn away by the rough ocean current...

Seaweed is also a regular sight...this bit looks like a sagging palm tree...



A shrimp shell...


Salt water bubbles, looks like a cutsie paw print...

A razor clam shell...the stuff clam chowder is made of...MMMM...

A gull print in the sand at Clam Beach...

Looks like whimbrels, which winter in CA...legs aren't yellow, bill isn't as long as a curlew's and it's too small...these were hanging out near the statue (below)...

This statue of a commercial fisherman is at the far end of the Woodley Island Marina in Eureka, CA, my hometown...

This memorial stone, near the statue, has the names of the commerical fishermen lost at sea carved on it...there are names on three of the four sides. The star stands for those whose bodies were never recovered.