Me dear old mum found a few of these at Ningaloo......Any idea what the **** they are ??? 65mm long x 30mm
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sand dollars ,not as big as we saw as kids but nice to see they havent dissapeared like the scallops. they were really common on beaches up untill the early 70's , especially where you have good healthy seagrass beds
Yep, sand dollars. My younguns became entrepreneurs after our recent trip to Exmouth.
Sand dollar didn't help, I had to google it, basically a flattened, burrowing sea urchin. Interesting, I've never heard of then before.
They are what's called in the diving world a sea mouse. Type of burrow ing urchin that during the day bury themselves and come out at night.
That's really nice
not!
Maybe if everyone who comes to Ningaloo , picked something off the beach ,we could make the beaches up here boring and barron
You were obviously not ever told to look, and enjoy , BUT not touch.
Select to expand quoteCassa said..
You were obviously not ever told to look, and enjoy , BUT not touch.
isnt that the sign on the doors of strip clubs?
Select to expand quoteChris6791 said..
^^^ not true, in my experience touching just costs a little extra.
Did you make much extra money allowing the touching?
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That's really nice not!
Maybe if everyone who comes to Ningaloo , picked something off the beach ,we could make the beaches up here boring and barron
You were obviously not ever told to look, and enjoy , BUT not touch.
Maybe if everyone picked up discarded bait bags & tangled fishing, line like my Mum does , all our beaches would be in better shape...
Select to expand quoteMark _australia said..Chris6791 said..
^^^ not true, in my experience touching just costs a little extra.
Did you make much extra money allowing the touching?
How do you think I could afford my last new board?
Select to expand quoteChris6791 said..Mark _australia said..Chris6791 said..
^^^ not true, in my experience touching just costs a little extra.
Did you make much extra money allowing the touching?
How do you think I could afford my last new board?
Let me know when you need a new one, I'll tuck $5 into your g-banger.
NOT 
Now back on track - Cassa you can't be serious?
Not as if they took coral or something - it was a exoskeleton from a dead creature, lying on the beach....
Select to expand quoteMark _australia said..Chris6791 said..Mark _australia said..Chris6791 said..
^^^ not true, in my experience touching just costs a little extra.
Did you make much extra money allowing the touching?
How do you think I could afford my last new board?
Let me know when you need a new one, I'll tuck $5 into your g-banger.
NOT
Now back on track - Cassa you can't be serious?
Not as if they took coral or something - it was a exoskeleton from a dead creature, lying on the beach....
Each tourist season the towns population increases from 2400 to 9 to 10 thousand. I've watched sooo many walking the beaches collecting shell etc, and showing what they found . Only 5 yrs ago there were cowrie shells everywhere, now you are lucky to see any.
If only 5% of touro's take only 1 item from the beach (a figure I'm sure is much greater) that's a lot taken.
Just like the fisho's and grey nomads who visit, Have watched the same go out every day to fish, and the comment I here is , I spent so much gettiing here I need to take home as much as I can
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Sad.
And as for the rubbish , we pick up plenty regularly.And as for the fishing yesterday I travelled 45 nautical miles, caught 1 mackeral, stopped trolling, caught 1 mangrove jack , 1 spango, then went home while they were on the bite!, could easily have bagged out .
A dried up exoskeleton , not so bad, the rubbish , fantastic , if thats all the went , good , but as mentioned I've seen Much more taken.
yep no beachcombing on the west side but you can in the gulf. Your right cassa I havn't seen many cowrie shells washed up this year, would love people to take home a few sea urchins though
Select to expand quoteMacRab said..
Thanks Landy,.... We don't have these things in Vicco ,Cheers
I bet theyre just not as common as they once were. we would get them in piles on the beach at rockingham after a big northely blow.
in the early '70s they built alot more industry, like alumina, alot of dredging for shell grit limestone and also the causeway to Garden island.
by the late 70's the blue mannas were gone from the first 50m of the waters edge and you stopped picking up Sd's and scallop shells
