The last unusual living creature I came across, I was on holiday at the time, was more than shocking, it was frightening to even know such an awful thing existed. That chance encounter affects me still. I had a vague idea what it must be, but I consulted a specialist and learnt all about it. He knew what it was right away, nothing else like it, he said. The species is the sole lingering representative of a phylum of creatures from the distant past. Apparently its kind somehow survived the mysterious, much discussed, catastrophic extinction event of the Devonian period, and thrived for millions of years afterwards, on through the age of dinosaurs, when a mere handful of the kind persisted - the species I encountered being the last extant. This opportunity was too good not to at least mention it in passing, but can't say more because the unforgettable encounter occurred over a month and a half ago now, so doesn't match the criteria. I won't forget that experience in a hurry I can tell you. But people are not much interested in this kind of thing nowadays, I find.
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Well I've been seeing some small blue bugs around here that I've never seen before and I'm wondering why they are now in the area - maybe something to do with globule warming. Cheers and happy weekend!
So wonderful to know. I'm so glad that in light of the fact that we are losing 1,000,000 species on Earth, at least we are growing new ones.
And such an attractive color too. I hope we get to have blue polar bears to replace those white ones. Oh that's right. It's Friday. CHEERS!
This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at September 6, 2019 12:59 PM MDT
Well I don't know if they are new bugs - they are just new to this area (as far as I know). Maybe they migrated here or came here on in some produce from over seas. They are pretty small bugs but sometimes something really small can mess up the food chain so I'm going to ask around about them. Cheers and happy weekend!
1. Hot, Fat & Sweaty American Tourists in Seoul. Truly an scary encounter for truly number 1.
2. Busloads of Chinese Tourists in Paris 2 weeks ago. Rude, loud and touching everything. The French Terror Police have now taken to having an officer follow each tour group in the Lovre, Orsay and a few other places just to make sure they follow the rules.
3. The most unusual of all 2 tech nerds who could actually string two nouns together with a verb, were personable and able to have an effective conversation with a woman. When I left them there was no doubt as to the evenings outcome. My new interns are amazing too bad I only get to keep them for a year
This is great, like having an indie travel comic book.
1. Understood.
2. At least they are more hated now than Americans used to be. I do remember the French absolutely loathing the Americans coming over there and making total jerks of themselves in the 70's and 80's. I'm sure it is still the same, but now we have the Chinese as competition in nausea. Wonderful.
3. Glad there were some pleasant humans after all.
Eels. They may not be unusual but I've never seen them until right after Irma and my canal was full of them after Dorian visited the other coast of Florida. There may still be some but I didn't detect any yesterday.
Well, so are catfish bottom feeders, but they are so sweet and delicious, I think they are fine fare.
I don't know about the eel, but my grandmother was a gourmet Italian cook, seriously, and she loved eel. For what that is worth. And also, I'll bet it depends on the type of eel as well.
The eel in the canal were 12 to 18 inches and quite skinny......like little snakes. After Irma there were so many it was scary in a The Birds kind of way.
Gulf Eel
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Baba 