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Photo
Journal October 2007
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Jo
O'Keefe Copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved. Photos may be used for educational
purposes only. Contact me with inquiries.
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Australian
Spotted Jellyfish, Phyllorhiza punctata, upside down, Sunset
Beach, NC, 10/30/07. Because each flip flop is 10 inches long, this
specimen is approx. 29 inches in diameter, the largest recorded at that
time. It is an invasive, nonindigenous species consuming over 12,000
gallons of water with the phytoplankton and larvae of our species and
that our species need to survive.
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Beach Texture,
full view and close-up, Sunset Beach, NC, 10/30/07
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Sunset over
Intracoastal Waterway, Sunset Beach, NC, 10/30/07; photo taken while
waiting to cross the bridge
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Sunset over
Intracoastal Waterway, Sunset Beach, NC, 10/30/07; photo taken from
center of bridge by walking back to it after crossing and parking
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Sundown over
Intracoastal Waterway, Sunset Beach, NC, 10/30/07; photo taken from
center of bridge
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Coconut,
a very unusual find, Sunset Beach, NC, 10/26/07
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Colonial
Tunicate, order Aplousobranchia, Sunset Beach, NC, 10/28/07
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Giant Atlantic
Cockle Shell, Sunset Beach, NC, 10/24/07
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Orange Sea
Whip, an unusual find on Sunset Beach, NC, 10/28/07
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Luidia
clathrata, aboral side, Sunset Beach, NC, 10/26/07
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Luidia
clathrata, oral side, Sunset Beach, NC, 10/26/07
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Portuguese
Man-o'-War, Physalia physalis, Sunset Beach, NC, 10/26/07 -- Very large;
my flip flop is 10 inches long
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Great Blue
Heron, Sunset Beach, NC, 10/25/07
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Speckled Crab,
Sunset Beach, NC, 10/25/07
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Gulls, Sunset
Beach, NC, 10/24/07
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Black Skimmers,
many sleeping in right photo, Sunset Beach, NC, 10/24/07
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Black Skimmers,
Sunset Beach, NC, 10/24/07
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Dune Camphorweed,
Heterotheca subaxillaris, Sunset Beach, NC, 10/12/07
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These 26 spires
were built by John, left, Gary, center and Megan Kiger, right, on Sunset
Beach, NC, 10/13/07. Perhpas the Kigers built these structures that
resemble pine trees coated with thick snow, because they live in the
mountains of North Carolina.
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Lucy from Gastonia,
NC, chasing and bringing back a ball from the surf, 10/07/07
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Lucy leaping
to catch the ball on the strand and then slowing down after the catch,
10/07/0
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Fishing rod
working while the fisherman rested, 10/07/07
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The tidal
spray crab, Plagusia depressa, Cherry Grove Beach, SC, 10/07/07
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Colonial
tunicates, Sunset Beach, NC, 10/06/07
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Ibises foraging
along causeway, Sunset Beach, NC, 10/03/07
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Raccoon accidentally
caught in cage, Carolina Shores, NC, 10/01/07
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