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Yellow underside of a starfish. It really makes me wonder why sea creatures are so colorful despite the fact that they are mostly underwater. It turns out, according to an article that I read, that communication signals, mating, camouflage, territory and other factors are used for color information and fine spatial information to encode species identity.

And at the rate the ocean degradation is happening, these shallow water colorful sea creatures won’t have much protection from mostly humans who them more harm and damage. So please, put back these starfish and other sea creatures in the water if you are done taking their photos. As much as possible, leave them where they belong: to the sea.

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What a lovely way to recycle. Or reuse. Huh? I’m confused.

I remember going to a min-concert of a folk singer half a lifetime ago, he said something like this while holding up a bottled water: “This is a healthy thing to do, drink water. In a politically incorrect non-biodegradable container.”

Everyone should learn how to reduce, reuse and recycle (not sure if this is the correct sequence, lol). We start them young in doing the three R for our trash. This reduce, reuse and recycle applies even or especially to people with Surgical Technologist jobs, doctors, teachers, and parents.

We do this at home, segregate our trash. Little things do matter when it comes to caring for the environment.

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I don’t know what kind of starfish this is. The bumps are a bit scary and reminds me of a Stegosaurus dinosaur.

We got these starfish during low tide, put them in a tin can with saltwater and brought to where we were staying for a photo opp.

Of course we brought them back again after we were through taking their photos.

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My youngest child was patient enough to wait for the fish to bite the hook where a worm was attached. Her efforts were rewarded when a fish finally bit the hook after a few minutes. We had to ask our guides to remove the fish pronto! so that we could take it back to the water.

That and the daughter was already freaking out, seeing a live fish hooked and flailing itself to be free from the hook.

Fun at the Fun Farm, a real FarmTown

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