A day at Torii Beach…
Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 11:37AM | 2 Comments Spent the other day with Steph and her 6-year-old son, Peyton, exploring Torii Beach. She was sweet enough to let me use the photos she took, as I wasn’t carrying my camera with me in the water.
While we were out exploring in the water, some young boys next to us found this awesome starfish! Biggest one I’ve ever seen outside of the Churaumi Aquarium! He was hard to the touch and we had fun showing him to all the nearby kids in the water. Fun to see who was willing to touch him, hold him, or who just wanted to look. He reminded us of the texture of a basketball.
Isn’t he a beaut?!
We were careful to keep him underwater most of the time so he wouldn’t dry out, but we did set him in a bucket at one point so you could see his suckers that he uses to move himself across the ocean floor – or to hold onto the ocean floor.
Like I mentioned, we were on show-and-tell duty with all the kids at the beach. Don’t know who this sweetie is, but he was definitely interested in the fish that looked like seaweed I caught in Peyton’s bucket.
Yes, you read that right – I caught little fish that looked like seaweed. They swam in a cluster (or I suppose, a school) and swam perpendicular, not the traditional horizontal, which added even more to the seaweed-like appearance. Quite interesting!
Peyton had fun exploring both in the water and on the shore. We were all interested in seeing what the recent typhoon had washed up, and we definitely weren’t disappointed by some of the awesome shells and a few rarer colors of sea glass.
All-in-all, a very fun day at the beach with friends!
Reader Comments (2)
Hope you're sharing your sea glass with your mom!! lol I got to read this post on your Mom's (Dad's??) new gadget, the pics are amazing to look at for detail. I still couldn't locate the starfish's suctiony things. Where exactly are they located. In the middle of each leg?
Aunt Amy,
Yes, the starfish's suctiony things are located in the middle of each leg. You can see some of them sticking to the green bucket. They are the yellow/manila colored things.
Love,
Arielle