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Post by dennisn on Jun 27, 2016 14:31:37 GMT
What is it? This morning during our swim, I was surprised by a swimming thing. It was between 4 and 6 inches long, torpedo shaped, had a pair of long (inch?) horns or bent spikes at the front, was swimming on the surface using perhaps three legs a side towards its rear.
Any suggestions welcome - I can look them up and see if they look like what I saw.
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Post by cariad23 on Jun 27, 2016 14:50:30 GMT
sounds like a nasty pasty ! keep away
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Post by amy114 on Jun 29, 2016 17:39:47 GMT
Dennis I did google your description of the fish and got back some weird and wonderful specimens but nothing like your description! Perhaps you have found a new species of fish unless it was a youngster of one of the specimens from my search? :-):-)
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Post by kelso on Jun 29, 2016 18:12:25 GMT
IT wasn't this one was it?
Google this one "small fish with long nose"
Bob
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Post by dennisn on Jun 29, 2016 18:33:30 GMT
Nope, it wasn't a FISH because it was swimming with legs. It reminded me of baby turtles as they set off out to sea after hatching. But it was long, not round and had a pair of what looked like horns or pincers at the front. A good candidate would be the snapping shrimp, except it was far bigger than the couple of inches that grows to. I am suspecting a young lobster. In both shrimp and lobster guesses, I'm pretty sure it didn't have a segmented body. Indeed at first sight, I thought it was a cicada or grasshopper, but it definitely wasn't. It was quite at home in the sea. But I didn't see any sign of curling under of the body, nor did I notice a bunch of little centipede-like legs as shrimps have under their tails.
As you lot have failed me, I shall go away and try to figure out how Amy did her avatar.
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