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This image shows a juvenile xanthid crab which was living in a large tide pool in Belle Greve Bay. This individual is the smallest xanthid crab I have seen with a carapace width of 21.4 mm. I believe it is Xantho incisus which is chocolate brown as an adult with black tipped claws. File No. BG 090208 2964 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
This is the mid-shore area of the southern end of Belle Greve Bay near the Salerie quay looking out towards the Quaine pole in the distance which is reachable by foot during an extremely low tide. I found this Guernsey Safeway plastic carrier bag lying on the beach and took an image of it before picking it up. Guernsey retail food shoppers used about 10 million plastic carrier bags per year before a £0.05 charge was introduced in 2008. Stopping the free distribution of plastic carrier bags at Guernsey retail food shops has significantly reduced the number being distributed. However a few plastic carrier bags still end up in the environment. Because of their light weight, some plastic carrier bags are blown onto the shore where they may be carried out to sea to be ingested by cetaceans, marine birds or turtles. See http://pagesperso-orange.fr/gecc/publications/pdf/PosterSeattle2002.pdf Those that don't get ingested can degrade to invisible microscopic particles which then begin their journey through the food chain back to humans. Disposable plastic carrier bags represent such a wasteful use of oil. They provide a short term convenience and a long-term environmental hazard. Please bring a shopping bag with you when you shop. There are plenty of ways of remembering to bring a shopping bag with you. I have one attached to my belt loop so I never forget it. See http://www.sealordphotography.net/gallery/3338107_734Um#206829342 File No. 090208 2954 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
This light caramel coloured compound ascidian colony which measures 22 mm across has had four 2 mm diameter holes bitten out of it by the gastropod or snail Lamellaria perspicua which then has deposited its eggs inside so that when the snail embryos hatch they have an immediate food supply. Lamellaria perspicua feeds exclusively on compound ascidians or sea squirts. These snails have a fragile internal shell. They appear on the base of boulders and cobbles as a large periwinkle-sized dome or cap of rough tissue. File No. BG 080208 2921 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
Hymeniacidon perleve BG 090208 2988 smg
This orange sponge, Hymeniacidon perleve, is common on the mid-shore of Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast. It tolerates dessication on rocks exposed to wind and sun. Photographed on 9th February 2008 File No. BG 090208 2990 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
This humpback scallop, Chlamys distorta, is attached to the base of a granite boulder on the lower shore in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast. As an adult the right valve of this scallop is cemented permanently to the substrate it attaches to. This individual had a shell length of about 3 cm. It was photographed on the 8 February 2008. File No. BG 080208 2908 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
Zostera marina epiphytes BG 170507 8799 smg
This is a montage of images from Belle Greve Bay and the Queen Elizabeth II marina on Guernsey's east coast in the Channel Islands. The main photograph is of a tide pool in Belle Greve Bay. The old, discarded tire and the broken battery were photographed on the lower shore in Belle Greve Bay. They were exposed by a low tide. The two adult shanny (family blennidae) are native to Belle Greve Bay. The juvenile shanny was found in the QE II marina which opens onto the southern shore of Belle Greve Bay. The coke can was photographed floating in the QE II marina. 2007 marine life New Year card ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
I visited the seashore at La Valette during the night of June 10, 2007 to clean the pebble beach of litter left by the summer crowd. During my visit I saw several very fast moving house centipedes, Scutigera coleoptrata, running over and under the pebbles and cobbles on the beach. The centipedes on the pebble beach were too fast to photograph but I saw this individual on the concrete steps leading from the beach to the seawater bathing pools. His body was about 4 cm long and he remained still while I took a number of photos with a Canon digital camera. File No. LaV 100607 639 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
This image shows a juvenile xanthid crab which was living in a large tide pool in Belle Greve Bay. This individual is the smallest xanthid crab I have seen with a carapace width of 21.4 mm. I believe it is Xantho incisus which is chocolate brown as an adult with black tipped claws.
File No. BG 090208 2964
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
This image shows a juvenile xanthid crab which was living in a large tide pool in Belle Greve Bay. This individual is the smallest xanthid crab I have seen with a carapace width of 21.4 mm. I believe it is Xantho incisus which is chocolate brown as an adult with black tipped claws. File No. BG 090208 2964 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
This image shows a juvenile xanthid crab which was living in a large tide pool in Belle Greve Bay. This individual is the smallest xanthid crab I have seen with a carapace width of 21.4 mm. I believe it is Xantho incisus which is chocolate brown as an adult with black tipped claws.
File No. BG 090208 2964
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
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