#beach clean

I am so bad at actually updating my own blogs lol. I will try harder. Likewise, I've not been on the beach much last few months because of the heat wave making it too hot. It also means the beach is busy and hard to pass through. If I wasn't working early mornings I would just go in the mornings.

As an apology have some washed up deadly balloons from over the years. 'Portuguese man o' war' are potentially deadly even when washed up so be careful, best to report to beach patrol if they do wash up because when there is one there is usually more.

They look like jellyfish, but they're actually a siphonophore! A colonial organism that resembles a jellyfish.

I actually think it is indeed St Anthony as @ritabuuk suggested as they are often depicted with lilies and holding the baby Jesus, and now I've extracted the image from the frame (and the sand) I can see it clearer.

It's a wee bit wibbly due to seawater.

Inktober 52 2023 - Week 10 - ‘Frame’

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.

So I do a lot of beach cleaning and one day I found a ‘frame’, complete with evidence a Keel worm once had a home on it.  I’ve sort of wanted to use this as a prop for photos or paintings, and I’ve since collected some smaller bits of drift wood (we don’t usually get the nice sanded down branches and more the ‘bits of wooden pallets’ here) to paint on. I’ve done a tiny little painting of a velvet swimmer crab claw after finding one on the beach recently (it’s so bluuuuue).

The frame is actually too big for this little painting, but I edited it together. The sea don’t provide a canvas size option. Unfortunately.

And BONUS TIME. I used up my excess paint on another small bit of drift wood and make a rough sea scene.

Sunrise beach stroll

whoa.

Poor Crash Bandicoot. Someone better tell Caddicarus.

I may have had too much fun with this find.