beachcombing

(Fiji Beachcombing series No.8):   Fluted Giant Clam shell (Tridacna squamosa), Spider Conch (Lambis sp.), Top Shell (Trochus sp.), sea glass, pumice, and several species I couldn’t identify, including a cowrie, coral branches, scallop, and Cone Snail. The stars of today’s…

Waya Island, Kadavu; March 18, 2012 (Fiji Beachcombing series No.10) :   Unidentified seeds, Cone Snail (unidentified sp.), Cowrie (Cypraea sp.), coconut seed (Cocos nucifera), unidentified Ark Clam species, Walai vine seed (Entada phaseoloides), unidentified limpet, Nerite (Nerita sp.), pumice The…

Waya Island, Kadavu; March 15, 2012 (Fiji Beachcombing series No.6):   Unidentified corals, coconut seed (Cocos nucifera), scallop, cone snail, and clam shells (all unidentified species), aluminum aerosol bottle, and a mysterious gastropod shell Just offshore from Matava is Waya Island.…

Matava, Kadavu; March 14, 2012 (Fiji Beachcombing series No.2):    Unidentified shell, Sally Lightfoot crabs (Grapsus sp.), Vutu flower stems (Barringtonia asiatica), ‘mudstones,’ vertebrae of a very large but unidentified fish Matava, Kadavu; March 14, 2012 (Fiji Beachcombing series No.5):   Bone,…

Unnamed point southeast of Matava, Kadavu; March 13, 2012 (Fiji Beachcombing series No.1):    Driftwood, Nerites (Nerita sp.), plastic bottle cap, sea glass, beach stones, Nerite (Nerita cf. lineata), Cone Snails, paper, Calophyllum inophyllum drupe, part of a Spider Conch (Lambis…