Hello, Geezer coming back to this forum. Paul B

[Paul B]

This morning was one of my best beach walks in the 7 years I have been living here. I can't believe I never see anyone at that time watching the sunrise. You can't do it at 2:00 PM.

I get that many people have to work, I also did that for over 50 years but the retired people should really get out and see this at least once when the sea is angry.

There is a big storm off the east coast now and it is bringing in a lot of flotsam and jetson which is garbage and stuff that washes off boats. I am on the North Shore but the south shore is getting hit very hard.

I think this is a paddle boat under the sand

 

[Paul B]

After the big storm yesterday, the beach was loaded with all kinds of seaweeds. I found this huge piece of Codium and it had a holdfast. That is important because normally I find it just floating and it is hard to glue to anything because the glue kills that area and the stuff floats around.

I didn't have anything to put it in so I placed it in a hole in this thing which I have no idea what it is but probably an alien artifact.

It will probably wash away by tomorrow but I was 2 miles from home and I didn't want it to dry out by the time I got home.

Luckily, at the stairs I take back I found another, smaller one with a holdfast so I dipped that one in the surf and brought it home and threw it in my tank. I will take a picture when the lights come on.

 

[Paul B]

Does anyone know what this "Chicken" looking thing is? I know there are some farmers here.

Yesterday afternoon we went to a Pizza party behind a farm stand where this Italian "girl" maybe 40ish who is a chef invited us for brick oven, wood fired pizza. They had a couple of singers and maybe 50 people showed up. It was a nice time but there were peacocks, goats and this bird walking around.

What is it? Maybe a grouse, but I have no idea what a grouse is unless it has fins and gills.

 

[wvned]

Guinea fowl (/ˈɡɪnifaʊl/) (or guineahen) are birds of the family Numididae in the order Galliformes. They are endemic to Africa and rank among the oldest of the gallinaceous birds. Phylogenetically, they branched off from the core Galliformes after the Cracidae (chachalacas, guans, and curassows) and before the Odontophoridae (New World quail). An Eocene fossil lineage Telecrex has been associated with guinea fowl; Telecrex inhabited Mongolia, and may have given rise to the oldest of the true phasianids, such as blood pheasants and eared pheasants, which evolved into high-altitude, montane-adapted species with the rise of the Tibetan Plateau. While modern guinea fowl species are endemic to Africa, the helmeted guinea fowl has been introducedas a domesticated bird widely elsewhere

Here they are just called guineas.

 

[kfisc]

I love guinea fowl! Farmers (my uncle in Illinois, anyway) kept flocks of them around for bug control and as watch dogs. We had one hanging around our house here over one summer after it outran a bobcat and it was a hoot. They eat ticks and man! Are they loud. We nicknamed it Maria Callas.

 

[Paul B]

Thank you. That is good to know, not that I will ever see another one. They must be good swimmers to get here from Africa.

 

[wvned]

Most places that have chickens running loose have some guineas. They are the watch dogs of the flock.

 

[wvned]

I have heard they eat snakes too.

 

[Paul B]

Nothing exciting on my beach walk this morning.

I came back and made my wife her favorite breakfast. Home grown tomatoes on Guacamole with home grown parsley with bananas and local blueberries on Daves Killer Bread. (I generally don't eat this)

 

[Paul B]

This Long Nose I have had a short while. Maybe 2 or 3 months, and because he is so small, I need to make sure he gets enough to eat because their mouth is so small. The normal food I feed every day is LRS food with some earthworms or chopped clams.

Small fish like this with such small mouths need tiny, soft foods. Small Copperbands have the same issues.
These juvenile fish should be fed a couple of times a day, which is why I am sure to feed at least a few live white worms every morning.

He eats more and faster than the rest of my fish, so it's no problem. Many people have problems with these types of fish because they either feed them the wrong things or don't feed them anything they can easily eat, like live worms.

I have had quite a few of these and copper bands over the years since the 70s, and I feel that is the problem with these. They are big feeders and, unfortunately, were designed with tiny mouths, so on the reefs, they need to constantly feed.

These are easy fish to keep; we just need to be able to meet their needs. Dry foods, pellets, and God Forbid, freeze-dried won't do it long term, even if they will eat such things, which most of them won't.

 

[Paul B]

I went fishing today with 2 friends. Between the 3 of us we caught about 70 porgies.

I also caught this "huge" shark. We almost had to get a bigger boat.

 

[Dustin07]

I'm jealous of your fishing lately and I agree sunrises are far better than sunsets. the sunrise starts the new day, the sunset happens and its like.... ok goodnight see you tomorrow.

 

[Paul B]

She was the mate that day and her name is Capt. Rachelle. I may go again once more this season. I cooled 30 fillets last night for friends who came over for dinner.

The last time, it was Melenda who came with us and cleaned the fish.

 

[Paul B]

Good Morning. Today's beach walk was uneventful. Just another beautiful morning but the sunrise was kind of blah so I didn't film it.

The tide is high so the sand was full of seaweeds.

Plenty of bladderwrack seaweeds but I don't think this will last long in my tank.

Then I found this very cool seaweed but I didn't have anything to put it in so I had to leave it there. I don't know what it is

 

[Uncle99]

Stunning place.
Love it!

 

[Paul B]

On my way back from my morning walk a strange thing happened.
As I was nearing my house I saw this very bright light. It was so bright that I couldn't look straight into it.

I immediately realized that an Alien ship had landed right near my home.
For some reason it landed behind a parked Mack Truck.

I was amazed, aghast and scared at the same time and I knew that at any second I would be beamed aboard that ship and transported to an unknown galaxy where they would do un-heard of eerie, un-earthly experiments on me.

My mind raced and I immediately thanked God that earlier this morning I took a shower and put on clean underwear because my Mother always told me, if I had to go to a hospital or have any medical tests, make sure to have clean underwear on or they will throw you out.

I was in awe and too afraid to turn around and run so I kept walking to the light as if it had some kind of evil power over me.

I got closer and closer until I plainly saw it.

It was a Toyota Land Cruiser, and the sun was glaring off the side windows.

Then I had to go inside and change my underwear again.

 

[Paul B]

So I went on a fishing boat and my friend who I went with told me his Grand Son's picture is on Facebook with pictures of him. I was also there a few weeks earlier and I wanted to see if my Grand Sons picture was on theere.

I don't go on Facebook and haven't looked at it in years so when I tried to access the stupid thing.
I got this:

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LOL, now I know why I don't go on there.