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It was BTA 6, Bean Theft Auto Six and it was about beans stealing cars.

Reposted here because im a troglodyte who doesn't know how to categorize posts. I guess this is the right sub idek.

late night Chinese takeout

Two female Long Billed Thrashers. The one on the left doesnt appear to be friends with the one on the right.

• sorry for going overboard on the earthposting lately

Gulf Fritillary caterpillar, seen munching on its solitary food source, passion fruit vines. Seen earlier today at a botanical garden.

The botanical garden I went to today has a butterfly sanctuary. Got to see some beautiful butterflies.

This is Abigail the African Spurred Tortoise. 50LBS, and approx 20 years old. Will live to about 65 years of age, and grow up to about 60LBS.

She seems very friendly. When I went to the edge of her pen she came lumbering straight over to me and followed me when I changed spots to get better light. She probably thought I had treats.

shutter speed was a bit slow I think. Wings are a bit blurred.

Velella velella, little blue sail, by-the-wind sailor, is a multiorganism creature similar to jellyfish. they float on top of the water and hang tentacles into the water that have stinging cells on them. They are supposed to be mildly bothersome but not much more but I think people with allergies may react different. They come in two varieties; the sails on top are oriented two different ways. One variant the sail causes it to get pushed leftward of the wind, the other variant the sail orientation causes it to get pushed rightward of the wind. I think this is one that gets pushed rightward.

When they are just washed up they are a blueish purpleish clearish if that makes any sense. What I photographed here has been washed ashore a long time and has long since bleached out. Its consistency here is like really sun damaged cellophane plastic. I was looking for crabs and other marine life that lives in the sargassum when I found this.

heres a wikipedia link so you can see what they look like when they arent a sunbleached husk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velella

This net float picked up some barnacles on its drift around the GoM. Gooseneck barnacles are deep sea creatures so this thing being covered in them means it likely spent years drifting around somewhere. The Titan Acorn barnacles were more recent additions when the float drifted near a offshore rig. The Titan Acorn barnacles are invasive species from the Pacific but are slowly becoming more common in the Gulf. The float was full of water so it probably spent some time floating in the water column, and not just on the surface.

A bivalve of some sort, Ive never seen them live, only the shells wash ashore. Sometimes the shells wash ashore with both halves intact and the beard attached but thats usually just after a really big storm.

Tar washed ashore, Gulf of Mexico. Tar seeps out of the ground naturally in places. This likely seeped out, floated to the surface and got pushed around by ocean currents for about a year before making its way here to the shore. Its underside was just lousy with goosenecks, you can see a few around the edges. The winds were gusting to 35mph yesterday so it pushed ashore some of the heavier, larger stuff that doesnt usually make it ashore.