My Spysweeper blocked access to that website. That almost never happens, so I regard it as a bad omen. Does that make the above a bad post?
This is kelp, too, but you can’t see any “rooty fringe.”
I just can’t google-fu anything else that matches your description.
I think I may have seen what you’re talking about. When all dried out, it looks kind of like a bunch of poker chips on a string or something. If that’s the case, I believe it’s the vertebrae of some sea creature who’s name escapes me.
That’s much closer! Does kelp have a skeleton like inside?
Could they be conch eggs ?
But penii is never correct. And neither is octopi.
Nope, but I’ll say that those are pretty cool looking. I’m beginning to think that I got all excited over normal everyday kelp. Sometimes they shouldn’t let midwesterners travel.
Noooo! That is my favorite! Can I still say hippopotami?
Actually, I’m not too sure it was kelp either. My guess is it was likely some type of seaweed, quite possibly Sargassum (washed in from the Sargasso Sea in the middle of the Atlantic), but I’m not sure. And just because it’s ordinary algae, doesn’t mean it isn’t fascinating. Biological diversity is such an interesting topic to start with.
I enjoyed trying to figure it out, though; sort of like a Google treasure hunt.
quietly wishing I’d stuck to it in school and followed my youthful dreams
You mean that pi is not the plural of pus? And *i * is not the plural of us?