Monday, May 12, 2008

Ocean Treasures

Having studied Marine Biology all year, my kids were very excited to go shelling on our recent trip to Sarasota. Among our fabulous finds were:

A live sea scallop:


A finger sponge:


A skate egg case (also called a mermaid's purse):


And a whelk egg case:

2 comments:

Hannah said...

Thats awesome!!!

Bethany said...

We just learned about the mermaid purse in science class. Pretty pics