Is jellyfish?
Here’s what we found in a tide pool at Whalebone yesterday: a transparent jellyfish thing with pink innards. I’d love to know what it is. Update: Today’s Gabriola jellyfish – 10 Aug 2010
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Seals at Whalebone
If you stand on the beach at Whalebone at low tide, looking out to sea, you might notice a bit of rock sticking out of the water over on your left. Can’t see too much detail from the beach, can you? But peer at it a bit and you may see shapes on top of [...]
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Weird goop on the beach
There were handfuls of this rubbery goop all over Whalebone beach the other day. Any idea what it is? I wondered if it could be ambergris — a valuable substance used in the making of perfumes. But brace yourselves: ambergris is basically whale barf. Well, ok, not quite, but: Ambergris occurs as a biliary secretion [...]
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Vancouver from Gabriola
That’s West Vancouver in front of the cruise ship. Vancouver’s the dark bit on the right side. I think the seagull has the right idea: hang out on Whalebone Beach and ignore the city altogether.
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A Gabriola spiderweb
This morning I was in the woods near Whalebone Beach, and the whole forest was a sparkling miracle of spiderwebs. This web looks like a hammock for a small forest creature.
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