Exile #2 and I started the weekend with a fairly early low-tide walk on the beach.
The strangest sighting was this - a gelatinous mass on the beach (nearby were two other smaller sections of similar material) washed up by the recent stormy seas and a very high tide (the high tide mark was as high as we'd ever seen it). Our guesses as to what it was were all wrong - seaweed, jellyfish, sea anemone...can you guess what it really is?
Any guesses - seriously?
It was Exile #4's Google-fu that found the answer to the riddle at the lunch table.
Ready for the answer?
They are squid eggs - Loligo pealei lives in the Gulf of Maine and goes by various names: longfin inshore squid, northern squid and once caught and prepared - calamari.
Each of those pouches contain over a hundred squid embryos - so that's a lot of potential calamari.
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