A nice afternoon watching waves swashing and swirling through gullies and gaps along the shoreline.
County Clare, Ireland.
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Razorbill (Alca torda) beak. Left overs from a Peregrine falcon's meal.
County Clare, Ireland.
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A fossilized piece of a Calamites plant. Over 300 million years ago, when this area was a tropical delta, these giant relatives of modern Horsetail plants thrived.
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The Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland.
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A small concretion that has eroded out of the sedimentary rock layers here on the shore. It possibly has a fossil inside, but I like it too much to break it open 
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A juvenile Spider crab (Maja squinado). When fully grown, they are the largest crab species regularly found in Irish waters.
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A closer look at some bits of Honeycomb Reef.
Formed by Honeycomb Reef worms (Sabellaria alveolata).
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A Beadlet Anemone (Actinia equina) With its blue beads (stinging cells) showing nicely. They use these on each other when jostling for position in rockpools.
County Clare, Ireland.
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Goniatite fossils, formed over 300 million years ago, looking almost as surprised to see me as I was them 
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Seapinks (Armeria maritima) beginning to peek out along the Burren shoreline.
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A King Scallop (Pecten maximus) shell.
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An almost perfectly circular Septarian nodule. Looking like lightening trapped in a pebble, these are actually fossilized mud bubbles.
County Clare, Ireland.
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A pretty pebble from a Cliff-side stormbeach.
Formed by volcanic activity in present day County Galway millions of years ago, dragged South by glaciers during the last iceage thousands of years ago and more recently shaped and polished by Atlantic waves.
County Clare, Ireland.
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Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland.
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A Razorbill (Alca torda) beak. This adult was killed and eaten by a Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) with just the beak left behind. A bit grizzly but a perfect chance to get a closer look. The feathers feel like velvet!!
County Clare, Ireland.
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The night sky in a sea polished pebble - complete with stars and spiraling galaxies.
Mostly fossilized Goniatite shells.
County Clare, Ireland.
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A Sandalled anemone (Actinothoe sphyrodeta) sitting in rockpool. A mini explosion of colour.
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