Yesterday I found myself back at Castle Rock, and while I was there to climb I also took a quick dip. There were more people fishing this time so I was a bit limited in where I could snorkel plus the water was not as beautifully clear as the previous week, but… I came across a Small Toothed Flounder and had to share the images with you:
This fella was very cool to watch and very strange to look at. His whole face looked contorted and mashed up with a vertical mouth and an eye, seemingly, located above and below the mouth. The colours looked striking as it swam over the weed, but once settled on the sand was amazingly well camouflaged. While I of course saw more than this guy it was the best find:
Then today seeing it was calm all day I decided to try my local beach in the late afternoon… only to be greeted with murkiness and weed flying through the water. It was not very inviting but I stayed out just in case there was something to see:
Of course if you look hard enough there is always something, and in this case I’m not sure what I found but it was very cool. Covered in tiny stubby tentacles with pale tips and looking similar to an anemone, but not having a body into which to suck the tentacles back in, this golf ball sized dome was tucked away in a crevice:
There was not a huge amount more to see but I did come across, as I usually do, a sea star or two. So I’ll leave you with this one, as I liked the contrast of the bright red against the funky bubbly green plants:
I’m already getting excited for the next snorkelling season.
Sandbagged 