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Yesterday, Rhosili beach, at low tide, there were more little critters than I've ever seen on a sandy beach. Didn't go in the water (until the tide came in a bit more) for fear of crunching hermit crabs beneath my feet.

Also found loads of bivalve type things alive and feeding, and snails crawling about in the wet sand feeding. But there were some white flat-ish worm things that I couldn't identify. Mostly smooth but with the appearance of something like expanded polystyrene - pieces stuck together, but not really scales. Soft, squidgy and sort of snotty. Slightly wider at one end, about 5-7cm long. May not have been a worm, could be bits of some kind of sponge or something because there were small clumps of them hanging onto something else.

Any ideas?


 
Posted : 06/06/2016 10:53 am
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Tunicates of some kind? Were they mobile like worms or sessile?
Get lots of seapork washed up at this time of year.


 
Posted : 06/06/2016 10:56 am
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I've heard of that. It rides at Gisburn and posts racist comments on YouTube.


 
Posted : 06/06/2016 10:56 am
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Dunno if they were mobile, all very dead. But there were also clumps of them stuck to bits of what looked like something else so perhaps not mobile.


 
Posted : 06/06/2016 11:03 am
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Definitely not sea pork, they looked just like worms. Possibly some kind of tunicate though looking flat and dead.


 
Posted : 06/06/2016 11:07 am
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Kraken Wakes

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03vlfh3


 
Posted : 06/06/2016 11:13 am

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