At the beach
This is a Spiney spider crab. Despite its appearance its not aggresive in any way and I regularly find them under the water on the sides of the cliffs particularly at Mwnt when snorkelling. 
Its back is covered in kind of blunt thorns I suppose- but the weight of them out of the water is quite suprizing - I often have cuts and scrapes along my hands where I've picked them up and not accounted for their weight. Alien like in appearance they are quite funny little things and to see banks of them trying to hide amongst the Kelp beds is really something.
This one was found in a rockpool in Llangranog - we left it with another even bigger one once we'd taken a few photos in June 2006.
Fulmars - are not gulls at all but more closely related to Albatross - the nodules on their beak are used to siphen salt from the sea water. They can almost look quite purplish in colour sometimes but are easily recognised by the fixed wing spans and the graceful gliding motions along the cliff faces.
This one was taken gliding along in front of the cliff faces at Ynys Lochtyn in June 2006.
Its back is covered in kind of blunt thorns I suppose- but the weight of them out of the water is quite suprizing - I often have cuts and scrapes along my hands where I've picked them up and not accounted for their weight. Alien like in appearance they are quite funny little things and to see banks of them trying to hide amongst the Kelp beds is really something.
This one was found in a rockpool in Llangranog - we left it with another even bigger one once we'd taken a few photos in June 2006.
Fulmars - are not gulls at all but more closely related to Albatross - the nodules on their beak are used to siphen salt from the sea water. They can almost look quite purplish in colour sometimes but are easily recognised by the fixed wing spans and the graceful gliding motions along the cliff faces.
This one was taken gliding along in front of the cliff faces at Ynys Lochtyn in June 2006.
posted by Steve at 1:33 PM
2 Comments:
Nice site, very nice pictures. I came across your site by hitting the next blog button.
Thanks Cherub - its a sort of nature anex to my main blog which is a record of our time spent in Newquay in W Wales - only really did it so the family can see what we're up to but thanks for the comments - much appreciated
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