I did find this site http://wn.com/Beach_combing which seems to have a couple of interesting things on it. Youtubes and stuff.
We found some sponges on the far north beach the other day but did not have the camera with as the weather was dreadful. Too late we found that our mobile photo memory was full up. It was so windy that day and we had to turn back because it started to rain. You could see the heavy rain cloud moving from the next islands in the chain and it looked ugly. It was a pity because we had hoped to go for a long walk. We did find some really big, very old shells that had been exposed because the wild winter winds and storms had exposed the lower levels of sand.
Its such a pity that these creatures seems to be extinct on this island where we live. I wonder if it was during the seaweed industry era.
People don't realise how much marine life there is on the seaweed. By gathering it in mass and burning it as they used to for the seaweed/glass industry, they must have destroyed so much marine life :(
Last winter the council ran out of grit and as emergency measures beach sand was used as grit for the roads. Beach sand is so precious and full of life its tragic to use it. I hope they dont have do that this year.
I wonder when the last time was that these big shell creatures lived on our island. The ones we find are very old. If we could have them dated that would help.
I wonder if people turned to them in a massive way during the Potato Famine, before the clearances?
Something I saw today on the news was:
Chile Creates Large Marine Reserve at Sala y Gómez Island
Extract
Today, the Chilean government announced the creation of a large marine reserve around tiny and remote Sala y Gómez island in the Pacific ocean. The Waitt Foundation, Oceana, and National Geographic mounted a March 2010 expedition to document marine diversity in waters surrounding the island. The government's move represents a more than 100-fold increase in the expanse of Chile's marine protected areas.
Read more about it on the site.
Marine conservation is really important. From us studying the beaches and sea around here, there is a lack of marine life. There should be far more than there is because we are so isolated and far from the mainland. Yet there is very little!
Its so frustrating because we want to see so much and there is not :(
I found some stuff yesterday about islands and will try and find it again to post it. It was really interesting. haunted islands and bio diverse islands. I will make another post about it.
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