After the O'Connors left the Bahamas we decided to head south towards Little Harbor for a few days of swimming and doing nothing. While swimming around the grasses at our anchorage I thought I had dinner in the form of a conch. When I got it to Nati and we looked closer it was no Conch. The pictures show a beautiful Queen Helmet. For you tekkies it is a "
Cassis Madagascariensis", a heavy shell with a low spire and glossy, triangular aperture shield. It was about 9-10 inches long and it was "alive". So that meant no shell for Dick & Anne but we took a few pictures before I dove down and sent it on it's way.
It's a wonder of how nature can make things mankind can only dream of......
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| Queen Helmet |
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| close up view |
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| Check out the shell! |
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