They were alarmingly active, waving around in a tortured fashion with little tentacles emerging from the shells every so often.
Apparently the foot (or neck?) is edible and tastes of crab claws but I wasn't tempted.
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3 years ago
Thursday, 27 January 2011
Goose-neck barnacles
We found these pelagic goose-neck barnacles clinging to a fragment of pipe at the waterline on Bethell's Beach. A commenter had kindly identified them for me when I posted a picture of another variety in 2009.
They were alarmingly active, waving around in a tortured fashion with little tentacles emerging from the shells every so often.
Apparently the foot (or neck?) is edible and tastes of crab claws but I wasn't tempted.
They were alarmingly active, waving around in a tortured fashion with little tentacles emerging from the shells every so often.
Apparently the foot (or neck?) is edible and tastes of crab claws but I wasn't tempted.
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