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Caught in one of our daily manta trawls
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Quite a few of these floating around in the tidal gut. It was an outgoing tide but they were coming in. I did observe one in a rock pool moving along and turning around while all of the others in the pool were stationary - and that rock pool had no water movement whatsoever. I do not have a clue what they are or where to start so I thought I would be creative and start with a bluebottle sea anemone :D The first photo is taken looking straight down and the second photo is from the side.
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Quite a few of these floating around in the tidal gut. It was an outgoing tide but they were coming in. I did observe one in a rock pool moving along and turning around while all of the others in the pool were stationary - and that rock pool had no water movement whatsoever. I do not have a clue what they are or where to start so I thought I would be creative and start with a bluebottle sea anemone :D The first photo is taken looking straight down and the second photo is from the side.
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This is how people usually see them - washed up on the beach. To see what they look like before they get to this state, http://naturewatch.org.nz/observations/2612311
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Floating in a tidal rock pool.
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Washed up. Mainly full grown ones now instead of all of the juveniles seen a couple of weeks ago.
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Washed up. Mainly full grown ones now instead of all of the juveniles seen a couple of weeks ago.
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Many thousands washed up on Natural Bridges SP beach during the storm today. Much smaller than I've ever seen them, unless it was something else, of course. The sails weren't very distinguishable and all the animals looked pretty beat up
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Many thousands washed up on Natural Bridges SP beach during the storm today. Much smaller than I've ever seen them, unless it was something else, of course. The sails weren't very distinguishable and all the animals looked pretty beat up
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Many thousands washed up on Natural Bridges SP beach during the storm today. Much smaller than I've ever seen them, unless it was something else, of course. The sails weren't very distinguishable and all the animals looked pretty beat up
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Smaller than I've ever seen them (besides last week less than a mile down the coast), hundreds washed up on strand line
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Smaller than I've ever seen them (besides last week less than a mile down the coast), hundreds washed up on strand line
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"Saw many tiny velella velella's washed up along the coast. Many were as small as 1/2"" or less. Some around 1"". Lots of them along the Asilomar coast shore. Windy day."
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Many bluebottles were washed up on New Chum Beach. My guess is 50-100 scattered the length of the beach at various high tide levels. Also seen on Whangapoua Beach on the same day. There were also some velellas washed up with the bluebottles.
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