I've been hearing the sugar gliders barking away in our trees again recently. When we first moved in I used to lose hours of sleep each night trying to work out what on earth was yapping away. It wasn't until one went gliding past my husband's head that I put two and two together.
The swamp wallabies are also out and about quite a bit and we saw a young one grazing near the road a few nights ago. Seriously the cute was strong with that one. And yet here I am with zero photos of either of these animals 😂 I mean, how great would they be?!?!? But I'm afraid the cold and the rain has kind of gotten the better of me so you'll have to look at more stuff from the rock pools 😂 Sorry, not sorry! I promise to try and get some photos of fluffies again soon - it has been TOO long.
Anyway. Exciting for me I found another species of sea star down at my local rock pools, the not very cleverly named Eleven-Armed Sea Star, which generally has between 7 - 14 arms or rays. So the first time I saw one, it was in the middle of a large rock pool on a windy day so really struggled to get a decent pic. I didn't expect to see another but yesterday a flash of orange caught my eye, and there laying in a little cave-like area was this largish Eleven-Armed Sea Star in all its eight armed glory 😂 These are one of those species that can discard a limb when it is being attacked and regrow another and hence the disparity in arm numbers between animals. They are also really cool in that they can reproduce sexually as well as by self division - so basically as long as there is a part of the central disc attached, an entire new animal can grow from a single arm. I'm really trying my very hardest to not make a penis joke for some reason - proving once again that even though I have a birthday coming up very, very soon, I really am about 13 years old at heart (and inside my brain).
Eleven-Armed Sea Star
Sandon Point
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