WAH!!! After a long period of hibernation, I am back! However, it may not be for long... :( Yea... End of Years is coming and I have lots of work to do. In any case, the holidays follow afterwards so more blogging will follow. :)
SO, for today I will like to share a new shelf on my cabinet dedicated to Shore Weirdos! Yup, they're basically stuff that are not seashells. :)
Yea... Thats a pufferfish that you see. Got that from ShenZhen, China. It was the last one on the rack so I immediately snagged it! The Knobbly Starfish accompanies it as well! :) There are 3 different types of sand dollars too! Theer is a Cake Sand Dollar from Changi Coast Walk. There are tons of them there but DO TAKE ONLY THE DEAD ONES PLEASE! There are also Laganum Sand Dollars too. All of which from Bintan, Mayang Sari. The funny thing is that you can never find any live ones there but there are like hudreds of them littering the coast. The final one is have not identified. Found them on a trip to Cebu 3 years ago on some island, 忘忧岛 in Chinese. I actually got some heart urchins but they were crushed ont eh plane flight back. :(
The Flower crabs there are from Punggol Park. Do you see the Seahorse and Pipefish at the back? :) Also, there are some dried mangrove seeds from all parts of Singapore (Hey, we have half of the world's species of mangroves on this small island! :) ) The funny blue thing at the back is actually a coral piece. My parents found it in Lombok, Indonesia and I have never figured out where it comes from. Any guesses? :) Finally, you have our lovely horseshoe crab! Yup, found it along the Changi Coast. We have 2 species over here although just forther up the peninsular you may find a third species. Sadly, I have not found the moulted shell of the Coastal Horseshoe Crab... Maybe someday. :) You have our cuttlefish bones and a sea bean pod. And finally right in the centre, you have the purest form of seashell, Calcium Carbonate. Isn't it amazing that all 80,000 mollusc species actually derive their shells/bones from this dull, boring looking rock? (By the way, this rock comes from the School Science lab. I could not fit the rock into the flask so the teacher allowed me to take it home on my request. :P )
