Watching tiny waves in the sunshine.
County Kerry, Ireland.

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Saint Patrick's Cabbage (Saxifraga spathularis) is a Saxifrage species found in Spain, Portugal and Ireland!! A member of a small group of plants called "Lusitanian flora) that are found in these countries but not in England, Wales or Scotland.
County Kerry, Ireland.

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European Common Sea-urchin (Echinus esculentus) shell fragments.
County Kerry, Ireland.

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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.
County Clare, Ireland.

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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
County Clare, Ireland.

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A juvenile Spider crab (Maja squinado). When fully grown, they are the largest crab species regularly found in Irish waters.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A closer look at some bits of Honeycomb Reef.
Formed by Honeycomb Reef worms (Sabellaria alveolata).
County Clare, Ireland.

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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
County Clare, Ireland.

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Seapinks (Armeria maritima) beginning to peek out along the Burren shoreline.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A King Scallop (Pecten maximus) shell.
County Clare, Ireland.

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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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