Scott Murray 
(psych! they’re #barnacles, but no one follows that hashtag 😜)
Twoowls Elt 🦉 🦉
Ms. Que Banh#Beach gooseneck #barnacles find.
There's 3 different types of barnacles found in BC waters/on beaches - acorn, gooseneck & whale - the latter grows on whales' bodies. Barnacles are a longtime, year-round staple #seafood for coastal #Indigenous #FirstNations. In particular, the #Haida & #Kwakwakawakw & #Pacheedaht #FirstPeoples have several documented stories involving barnacles, including food prep recorded histories.
Barnacles are #ancient and can be dated to the middle of Cambrian period of Paleozoic because of Burgess Shale deposits in #BritishColumbia. They're #hermaphroditic #MarineAnimals.
#beachcombing #ectoparasites #MarineBiology #epibiotic #LookAndLearn #TraditionalFood #CoastSalish #shellfish #PortRenfrew #Kwakwakawakw #Haida #IndigenousFoods #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #WestCoast #Canada #photography #WorldInMyEyes #Educational #CoastalBC #marine
Ryan Hodnett#Barnacles #SeaLife #ArtWithOpenSource #CCBYSA #Darktable #MarineLife #Cirripedia #Arthropods #Animals #AnimalPhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography
#Barnacles #PenShell #SeaLife #ArtWithOpenSource #CCBYSA #Darktable #MarineLife #Cirripedia #Arthropods #Animals #AnimalPhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography
#SilentSunday #corrosion #iphonephotography #myphoto #scotland #barnacles #rust #decay #red #lowtide
Anemone Nemorosa"Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles in a thundering typhoon!"
― Captain Haddock
I am a fan of Hergé and Tintin. I have all the albums at home and I still read them once in a while, in their original French version. I know each and every swear word of Captain Haddock. I even have a dictionary of them. But I didn't know the famous "Mille millions de mille sabords de tonnerre de Brest!" was translated with a reference to barnacles in English.
I found the translations for that same expletive in other languages. It becomes
"Hunderttausend heulende Höllenhunde" (a hundred thousand howling hellhounds) in German; "¡Mil millones de mil cañones!" (a billion thousand cannons) in Spanish; something like "bomber och granater" (bombs and grenades) in Swedish; and "Blá-bleikjaðar hrúðurkarls" (Blue-bleached scabbard) in Icelandic. I wish I could read the albums in every language, just to see what makes people laugh elsewhere. Who knew barnacles could be funny.
Barnacles and three rabbit holes : Captain Haddock's expletives. September 2025.
#macro #sea #barnacles #marinelife #photography
― Captain Haddock
I am a fan of Hergé and Tintin. I have all the albums at home and I still read them once in a while, in their original French version. I know each and every swear word of Captain Haddock. I even have a dictionary of them. But I didn't know the famous "Mille millions de mille sabords de tonnerre de Brest!" was translated with a reference to barnacles in English.
I found the translations for that same expletive in other languages. It becomes
"Hunderttausend heulende Höllenhunde" (a hundred thousand howling hellhounds) in German; "¡Mil millones de mil cañones!" (a billion thousand cannons) in Spanish; something like "bomber och granater" (bombs and grenades) in Swedish; and "Blá-bleikjaðar hrúðurkarls" (Blue-bleached scabbard) in Icelandic. I wish I could read the albums in every language, just to see what makes people laugh elsewhere. Who knew barnacles could be funny.
Barnacles and three rabbit holes : Captain Haddock's expletives. September 2025.
#macro #sea #barnacles #marinelife #photography
"I told them of the Bernakes (Barnacle Geese). For I told them that in our country were trees that bear a fruit that become birds flying, and those that fell in the water live, and they that fall on the earth die anon."
― The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, between 1357 and 1371
I had no idea there were Goose barnacles - and Barnacle geese. I had no idea people used to believe those geese actually came from these barnacles. Not knowing yet about bird migrations, people from the medieval period had to explain their annual reappearance on the sea shores of Europe. Since some barnacles had some resemblance with these geese and were often fixed on driftwood, that meant there were goose trees somewhere.
The myth of the barnacle geese coming from fruit trees was thus created. Those "fruits" were barnacles, opening when ripe to free the birds. I love mythology. It can reveal a lot of the culture in which a myth appears. In French, we still use "bernache" to name the geese. The etymology appears now much clearer! The barnacles I photographed are much smaller and are not of the goose species though. However... can't you see a little beak peeking ?
Barnacles and three rabbit holes : the goose tree myth. September 2025.
#macro #sea #barnacles #marinelife #photography
― The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, between 1357 and 1371
I had no idea there were Goose barnacles - and Barnacle geese. I had no idea people used to believe those geese actually came from these barnacles. Not knowing yet about bird migrations, people from the medieval period had to explain their annual reappearance on the sea shores of Europe. Since some barnacles had some resemblance with these geese and were often fixed on driftwood, that meant there were goose trees somewhere.
The myth of the barnacle geese coming from fruit trees was thus created. Those "fruits" were barnacles, opening when ripe to free the birds. I love mythology. It can reveal a lot of the culture in which a myth appears. In French, we still use "bernache" to name the geese. The etymology appears now much clearer! The barnacles I photographed are much smaller and are not of the goose species though. However... can't you see a little beak peeking ?
Barnacles and three rabbit holes : the goose tree myth. September 2025.
#macro #sea #barnacles #marinelife #photography
"I am at work on the second vol. of the Cirripedia, of which creatures I am wonderfully tired : I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship."
― Charles Darwin, Letter to W. D. Fox, 24 [October 1852]
I like to research the things I photograph. Sometimes that gets me down rabbit holes. I didn't know barnacles were central in Darwin's work. He actually spent eight years studying them, a little baffled and not knowing how to classify these crustaceans, surrounded by smelly boxes full of them in his house. They turned out to be central to his theory.
After reading some science and looking at them more closely, I find barnacles really beautiful to photograph. The two calcified plates forming their opening, the operculum, are quite photogenic. And the other six overlapping shell plates creating the wall around them look like small volcanoes. But unlike Darwin, I left those to the beach where they belong, along with the other memories of that beautiful place.
Barnacles and three rabbit holes : Darwin. September 2025.
#macro #sea #barnacles #marinelife #darwin #photography
― Charles Darwin, Letter to W. D. Fox, 24 [October 1852]
I like to research the things I photograph. Sometimes that gets me down rabbit holes. I didn't know barnacles were central in Darwin's work. He actually spent eight years studying them, a little baffled and not knowing how to classify these crustaceans, surrounded by smelly boxes full of them in his house. They turned out to be central to his theory.
After reading some science and looking at them more closely, I find barnacles really beautiful to photograph. The two calcified plates forming their opening, the operculum, are quite photogenic. And the other six overlapping shell plates creating the wall around them look like small volcanoes. But unlike Darwin, I left those to the beach where they belong, along with the other memories of that beautiful place.
Barnacles and three rabbit holes : Darwin. September 2025.
#macro #sea #barnacles #marinelife #darwin #photography
