Is the Blog Logo a Real Shell?
I have only ever seen two Architectonica perspectiva shells inhabited by live animals. Of course, I carefully put them back where I found them.
Beach-combing has been a passion since childhood. This is a record of some of the things I find: shells, bones, seeds, pebbles, roots…
I have only ever seen two Architectonica perspectiva shells inhabited by live animals. Of course, I carefully put them back where I found them.
Jam jars filled with sea-glass, pebbles, shells and shrimps regularly accompanied the family back home from damp weekends in Hastings or Bexhill.
I tasted sea urchin for the first time off the northern coast of Java, but I won’t eat them again because some of their numbers are dwindling.
There are quite a few species of conch in Indonesia, but this is the most difficult to find, because each finger is long and delicate (reminiscent of a scorpion’s tail).
I could have used a more elaborate shell, but I want to start with one of the common or garden treasures nature shares with us.