Creatures
They were orangey with a tinge of yellow, if I remember well.
Who or what are the they, you may be asking. Well, you'll just have to read to the end!
Now, back to the description: they had tentacles and a stick body. They could have been a large insect, but weren't. They could have been prehistoric arthropods suddenly resurfacing on the shore of today. They might have been massive mites, but the shield protection was missing.
But they weren't mites or any sort of insect. They were simply orange algae with white pods, albeit fascinating ones. They were very different from the plant stuff that was here when I first arrived on the island–that brownish seaweedy stuff that could have be served in a salad or a soup. No, this had crawlers like a brilliant red crab. However chameleon it was in its animal likeness it definitely tended toward plant form.
Where did this seaweed come from and why? Do seaweeds have seasons? Or have the tides changed and the weeds blown in from another island, another place? And was that place more exotic to generate such a curious form?
Photo and text: Kristen Mastromarchi
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