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Changi Beach Saturday 10 January 2009
It was a lovely, breezy afternoon with paraboarders dotting the horizon:
They were racing in and out trying to get enough speed to launch themselves into the air:
We're wondering what caused this number of deaths among the large fish - there were no dead small fish washed ashhore. Abandoned catch? A storm? Disease? |
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More usual were two large Coastal Horseshoe Crabs (Tachypleus gigas)
and this unusual crab whose photograph is on the left. We also found a large Volute. The highlight though was this Sea Hare (photographs below): |
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Above was a majestic White-bellied Seaeagle (Haliaeetus leucogaster).
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It was soaring stately overhead when I took these shots. I had presumed it was hunting so imagine my surprise when I spotted this fish in its claws after I downloaded the photos into my computer:
It's times like these when I wish I had a longer lens... but then I'd have to lug the weight around everywhere.