About 1 PM today, we got cabin fever, and decided to check out the beach at an exceptionally low tide. The temperature peaked around 27 degrees, and the 10-15 north wind made it pretty chilly. We only saw a few hardy people on the beach.
As you can see, we do have a little ice built up on the jetty, and along the shore. If the temperatures stay this low for a few more days, we'll get a pretty good build up. It takes a lot of cold to freeze far out, but it has happened.
We saw quite a number of these,
Lion's Mane Jellyfish , stranded on the shore. We tend to call them "winter jellies" because they are the only one around in winter.
This one was about a foot across when flattened out. They get huge in cold waters, at one time they were considered the world's longest animal due to their long trailing tentacles. They can sting, but they are a lesser menace than our summer Sea Nettle, because of lesser abundance and just because we don't swim in the Bay in winter.
The low tide really changed the look of the beach, producing this little "inlet" between the shore and the first sandbar, which is rarely exposed.
A crab pot that wandered into shallow water somehow and got lost.
Ghost pots like this continue to fish and kill crabs and fish until they eventually disintegrate.
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