Back come the fearless warrior princesses from their foray into the deep underwater world of the frozen Atlantic. The challenges have been fierce, the waters dark and dangerous, the creatures frightening and vengeful.
But one young warrior, braver than the rest, has successfully captured the elusive and deadly nudibranch.
Some eeewww moments when the nudibranch made skin-to-slime contact and began to slip from her grip, but the warrior marched onward with her prey.
Alas, the nudibranch, determined to escape the warrior, oozed its way from her grip (tale of the horseshoe to follow at a subsequent date) and splashed into the briny ocean.
Upon slapping into the water’s surface the nudibranch launched jets of burgundy ink in an attempt to foil further capture by the warriors.
(A great deal of squealing emitted by the warriors at the point as they fear the nudibranch was in mortal danger of death by exsanguination.)
However, the ocean’s currents washed away the nudibranch’s ink and the warriors were satisfied with their journey’s outcome.
And as the warrior princesses disappeared across the sandy beaches, the nudibranch returned to the sea where it counted its blessings and restocked its ink.
Wow! What an adventure! And what a totally beautiful nudibranch! On this coast I have only found 3 types: hooded, leopard (I think; I’m not sure if that’s really what it is called) and sea lemons. All of them less than a quarter the size of that humongous and spectacular find!
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