willyAirstream
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help w/ sea life indentification
posting this for Wiley and Carol
These are being washed up on shore with the kelp and seaweed. Can someone identify? Thanks, Wiley
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MMc
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It's a sea slug. I you really upset them off they put out a red shot of ink. The Spanish used them as a red die when they first overran Mexico. Big
money maker for the them 400 years ago.It was the best long term red die at the time.
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David K
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Just guessing: a California sea hare? Ken Bondy will know!
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You guys are both right, it's a sea hare. It's an opistobranch, a type of nudibranch, thus the term "sea slug" is correct although "sea hare" is much
more commonly used. They do, in fact, eject a thick purple fluid when threatened.
carpe diem!
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That's one ugly Slug. Juan called them Seacows. I think I saw a few in the bar scene of Star Wars.  Want to roll around and blow off some red tint, my sweet, little Slugette? Tio
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MMc
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You can become a expert here:www.seaslugforum.net/find/aplycali
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redhilltown
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pan seared with some shallots, butter, and olive oil?
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Thanks all for the ID sure ends all speculation.
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this little sweety has incredible indigo ink which is a great dye..ya gotta milk them into a container....something for Wiley to do!!!
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Diver
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| Quote: | Originally posted by shari
this little sweety has incredible indigo ink which is a great dye..ya gotta milk them into a container....something for Wiley to do!!!
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OK Shari, fess up !!
Do you make a Margi with the dye or eat the eyeballs or what ?  
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shari
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it's one of those well guarded culinary secrets"what goes on in Asuncion STAYS in Asuncion"...I'll never tell nor give out the coordinates of this
delicacy!
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Mulegena
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The Indigo Girls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzV5vf2PmHk
Thinkin' about the ink that Wiley's gonna collect:
... put it in a generic base from Comex and paintin' the house
... or dyeing muslin for new curtains
... como no?
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There is a woman out of Homer, Alaska, who uses octupus ink and makes the coolest pictures I have seen, so maybe we need someone with time on their
hands and a little artistic talent to start doing Pictures with Sea Slug Ink. I think they will have to work a little on the naming, though.
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Her name was Dianna Tillion and she passed recently.....
The octopus ink and her talent gave the art an M.C. Escher meets Ralph Steadman quality. Very cool and if somebody got on the sea slug ink bandwagon
down this way they could make a splash pretty quick.
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Could turn out to be another opportunity for income for the local fishermen.....ya never know....dt
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