The One That Got Away
February 5, 2018
Sometimes starfish are stranded on the beach when high tide turns. The one that made this print seems to have had a happier fate.
Update, later in the day: See Jessica Winder’s comment for another opinion.
Romancing Reality
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I am not so sure, Linda. As there is no continuous trail leading away from the print, it looks more as if the starfish has been grabbed from the air by a bird!
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February 5, 2018 at 5:08 AM
Oh, I hope that’s not so. I was thinking that the water lifted the starfish as it lapped on the shore. You could certainly be right, though. I guess I could be happy for the bird . . .
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February 5, 2018 at 9:11 AM
Lapping water would soften the outline of the starfish print or eradicate it. The bird option is at least part of the cycle of life, the ultimate recycling.
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February 5, 2018 at 2:01 PM
My husband thought a person may have picked up the starfish and thrown it back into the water. I have done that myself with sea urchins. So that’s another possibility.
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February 5, 2018 at 3:57 PM
Yes, that is a far happier thought.
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February 5, 2018 at 4:19 PM
I guess we’ll never know the fate of that starfish but I prefer to believe that a bird swooped down, picked up that starfish and returned it back to the sea. That’s my story and I’m stickin’ with it.
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February 5, 2018 at 12:24 PM
Oh, that’s the best story, Ken. I’ll go with it, too.
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February 5, 2018 at 12:33 PM
I was thinking someone rescued it, but it’s a mystery, and mysteries are good for us.
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February 5, 2018 at 6:54 PM
Why?
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February 5, 2018 at 8:07 PM
🙂 So we can keep asking WHY?
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February 8, 2018 at 9:27 PM
Oh. Not so we can make up happy endings?
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February 8, 2018 at 9:35 PM