| Pages:
1
2 |
BajaLori
Newbie
Posts: 12
Registered: 8-31-2009
Location: Las Vegas/Bahia Santa Maria
Member Is Offline
|
|
Help with identity of this thing?
Saw these on the beach in the south campos of San Felipe. Bahia Santa Maria area. Been down there for spring break the last 10 years and have never
seen them. Does anyone know what they are? They are about 4-5 inches long. we saw about 5 of them.
|
|
|
capt. mike
Elite Nomad
Posts: 8085
Registered: 11-26-2002
Location: Bat Cave
Member Is Offline
Mood: Sling time!
|
|
looks like a chesnut to me.
formerly Ordained in Rev. Ewing\'s Church by Mail - busted on tax fraud.......
Now joined L. Ron Hoover\'s church of Appliantology
\"Remember there is a big difference between kneeling down and bending over....\"
www.facebook.com/michael.l.goering |
|
|
elbeau
Nomad
Posts: 256
Registered: 3-2-2011
Location: Austin, TX
Member Is Offline
|
|
Oops...sorry. Forgot to flush.
|
|
|
BajaLori
Newbie
Posts: 12
Registered: 8-31-2009
Location: Las Vegas/Bahia Santa Maria
Member Is Offline
|
|
another view
[Edited on 4-26-2011 by BajaLori]
|
|
|
BajaLori
Newbie
Posts: 12
Registered: 8-31-2009
Location: Las Vegas/Bahia Santa Maria
Member Is Offline
|
|
one more.
|
|
|
DENNIS
Platinum Nomad
Posts: 29510
Registered: 9-2-2006
Location: Punta Banda
Member Is Offline
|
|
Ohhhh Man....that thing's been eaten at least once. Do you let your kids play with stuff like that?? 
|
|
|
choyero
Nomad
Posts: 152
Registered: 4-21-2011
Member Is Offline
|
|
Was is hard or soft to the touch?
Did it have a smell?
What did it taste like?
|
|
|
bufeo
Senior Nomad
Posts: 793
Registered: 11-16-2003
Location: Santa Fe New Mexico
Member Is Offline
|
|
Difficult to tell from the photos and description, but you might think about ambergris. I don't know if it (or something similar) comes from any
cetaceas other than sperm whales or not. Anyway, just a guess.
Allen R
P.S. In retrospect, probably not ambergris, especially since I just noticed that you found 4 or 5 of them.
[Edited on 4-26-2011 by bufeo]
|
|
|
ELINVESTIG8R
Select Nomad
Posts: 15882
Registered: 11-20-2007
Location: Southern California
Member Is Offline
|
|
Is it a seed pod?
|
|
|
BajaLori
Newbie
Posts: 12
Registered: 8-31-2009
Location: Las Vegas/Bahia Santa Maria
Member Is Offline
|
|
Choyero
Not sure if you are kidding or not, but it was soft and I did not taste or smell it.
|
|
|
shari
Select Nomad
Posts: 13048
Registered: 3-10-2006
Location: bahia asuncion, baja sur
Member Is Offline
Mood: there is no reality except the one contained within us "Herman Hesse"
|
|
looks lke some kind of sea sponge...smelling it helps for sure.
|
|
|
bacquito
Super Nomad
Posts: 1615
Registered: 3-6-2007
Member Is Offline
Mood: jubilado
|
|
A type of sea cucumber??
bacquito
|
|
|
shari
Select Nomad
Posts: 13048
Registered: 3-10-2006
Location: bahia asuncion, baja sur
Member Is Offline
Mood: there is no reality except the one contained within us "Herman Hesse"
|
|
that was my first thought...sea cucumber but they are so watery and runny and this looks more solid.
|
|
|
choyero
Nomad
Posts: 152
Registered: 4-21-2011
Member Is Offline
|
|
I was only joking about the tasting part.
The other questions are descriptive of the item in question.
It looks like a sea sponge to me.
Did you squeeze it?
|
|
|
BajaLori
Newbie
Posts: 12
Registered: 8-31-2009
Location: Las Vegas/Bahia Santa Maria
Member Is Offline
|
|
I thought sea cucumber also, but I have seen those before, not on the beach but scuba diving. I didn't want to poke it to much because it seemed like
it might be alive. And besides if it was an alien pod that might not be pretty! lol I love to beachcomb and I love the fact that everytime we are
down there we see different things depending on the time of year etc.
Here are a couple more questions. We see these piles all the time and am wondering what makes these?
[Edited on 4-26-2011 by BajaLori]
|
|
|
BajaLori
Newbie
Posts: 12
Registered: 8-31-2009
Location: Las Vegas/Bahia Santa Maria
Member Is Offline
|
|
Sorry photo was too large. Let's try again..
UPDATE: Ok I found this. It is from a lugworm or sand worm.
[Edited on 4-26-2011 by BajaLori]
|
|
|
BajaLori
Newbie
Posts: 12
Registered: 8-31-2009
Location: Las Vegas/Bahia Santa Maria
Member Is Offline
|
|
And what creature makes this? See this all the time just not sure what causes it.
|
|
|
Ken Bondy
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 3326
Registered: 12-13-2002
Member Is Offline
Mood: Mellow
|
|
| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaLori
one more. |
I've seen and photographed a lot of sea cucumbers and this doesn't look like any I have ever seen. That doesn't mean it isn't a sea cucumber, but I
suggest that the search for ID should continue 
carpe diem!
|
|
|
Martyman
Super Nomad
Posts: 1904
Registered: 9-10-2004
Member Is Offline
|
|
It is related to starfish and sandollars because it has the penta (5 sided) symetry. An echinoderm of some sort? Maybe a desicated sea cucumber?
|
|
|
BajaLori
Newbie
Posts: 12
Registered: 8-31-2009
Location: Las Vegas/Bahia Santa Maria
Member Is Offline
|
|
Martyman, thanks. I am still looking for something that looks like it. There was more than one so I know they are something. I will look at the
echinoderm family. Surely someone else has seen them.
|
|
|
| Pages:
1
2 |
![[*]](images/xmbforum/default_icon.gif){kind=icon}
