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August 22nd 2008
Published: August 28th 2008
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Monterey Bay and Pigeon Point Lighthouse: We left San Simeon beach with high hopes of making it to Monterey early enough so that we might be able to spend some time at the aquarium. We were, however, waylaid not five miles north of our campsite where there was a sea lion viewing point. We weren't going to stop, but a bunch of people were there and as I had never seen sea lions before, we decide... Read Full Entry



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Handicles Nicoleus (those are actually Nickey's hands in a plastic barnacle children's display).
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Sea aneminem....amenimin....anenomes.
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Psychedelic sea urchins.
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Whaaaaa.
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Some sort of funky, orange sea thing.
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Nickey doesn't want me to show this picture, but I thought it was cool that the clams could bore through solid rock by banging their shells against it repeatedly. They send little tubes up to the surface to act as lifelines.
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More awesome sea critters.
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A battle crab, or something like that. He's covered in really spiny things.
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If I had a sand dollar for every time I....
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They were alive and all fuzzy! What you find on the beach is actually their skeleton.
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Camouflage in the ocean. Where's Waldo, can you find him? Also lost is Wilma, the Wizard, Odlaw, and Woof.
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More brilliant sea anemen...menemon...fluffy things.
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Kinda blurry, but that is a sea star to the Nth degree...he he.
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An octopus hiding in the corner, no flash was allowed because it would make him angry, and we wouldn't like him when he's angry.
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Purple spotted jellyfish
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Egg-yolk jellyfish (and yes, that's really what it's called).
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Scrambled egg-yolk jellyfish
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Umbrella, ella, ella jellyfish
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Underside of the umbrella jellyfish...pardon me!!
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Crystal jellyfish. They were actually invisible until you turned the light on above them.



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