My Nature Blog
We had a lot of luck finding seahorses at St Helens recently. But they weren’t the only interesting critters we found. We were at St Helens for around three hours so could take our time. This led us to find species that we normally wouldn’t.
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I was checking out the botryllids at the boat ramp last month when I noticed this weird ascidian. I wasn’t even sure it was a botryllid at first. It had what looked like zooids and apertures, but so do many other species. I was looking forward to the next week where we could collect a sample and figure out what is was!
Then I got Covid.
I’ve never seen seahorses in the wild before. Seth and I have seen some on the marine biology cruise, but I don’t class that as ‘the wild,’
I knew we had populations in Corio Bay, but had never managed to see one. I now know that this is because we were looking in the wrong spots.
Seth and I were flying blind with how we were looking for marine life. We changed tactics, based on advice from the field nats, and started getting different species in our nets.
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Seth and I had a lot of success at St Helens last week. So, when Seth asked if I wanted to go to St Helens on his day off and spend a couple of hours looking for critters… 🙂
We spent three hours both here and at the beach, so got to take our time looking for creatures. It was so fascinating. Normally I visit here every 3 weeks or so. In this case, it had only been 6 days. This allowed me to see botryllids at multiple points in their life cycle.
Typical. I’ve been looking for nudibranchs for years. I finally gave up, as there were so many other species intriguing me that I didn’t have to hunt for.
I was at St Helens on the 17th when I stumbled across this species. I wasn’t sure whether it was a nudibranch at first as there is a lot of variation amongst the different types.
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