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Friday, May 2, 2008

Barnacles

Barnacles have a lovely vocabulary associated with them. Here's some of what Wikipedia has to offer. Barnacles are: "sessile suspension feeders, and have two nektonic larval stages." We are further told that barnacles are "encrusters" and that most are hermaphroditic although a few are "gonochoric or androdioecious." I won't go further into their kinky sex lives. Their real estate sense, however, cannot be faulted. These particular barnacles reside beneath the wharf at Victoria's Inner harbour, surely one of the most pricey locales in a city with notoriously high property values.

3 comments:

USelaine said...

I like the sound of a softly sloshing wharf - this brings it to mind. Very calming.

Tanya Breese said...

Now I've got spongebob squarepants running through my head! Nice photo though!

USelaine said...

P.S. Softly sloshing is easier to type than it is to say fast three times.