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 Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 6:39 pm Post subject: Blood sucking sea creatures |
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Coming back from the Bellingham CBGT, Terri and I stopped at Ketron Island (a small island in south Puget Sound between Anderson Island and Steilacoom). Tide was in and there was a sandy beach on the east side of the Island. Later the tide was going out so we waded in the water to move the boat to a better location and was attacked by hundreds of small sea creatures. They looked like a small pill bug with longer legs and more pointed on both ends. They were the size of a grain of rice to a half-inch long and 3/16” in diameter. When they latched onto you, you would feel it biting and there would be a red mark there. When we got out of the water you could see them swarming around in the water. When I splashed some out, they would immediately burrow into the sand, leaving a hole about twice their diameter in the sand. I looked other places on in the waters edge and did not see any bugs but when I walked in the water they would come up and attack.
Anybody have any idea what they could be?
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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what you been smoke'n Dav???  |
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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Jeeze, from the subject I thought you were talking about a maritime lawyer or something.
Never heard of a creature like that.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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Watch it, Uncle Don!!!
| Sneaks wrote: | Jeeze, from the subject I thought you were talking about a maritime lawyer or something.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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Could they possibly be sea lice? They sure like salmon. Maybe they just mistook you for one Dave! 
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Pat Anderson wrote: | Watch it, Uncle Don!!!
| Sneaks wrote: | | Jeeze, from the subject I thought you were talking about a maritime lawyer or something. |
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OK, then maybe it was a government IRS agent experiment gone bad. How about a nest of breeding politicians?
Besides, you're a brewmeister who happens to have a JD, young man. Hobby businesses don't count.
Actually most colleges up your way should have a marine biologist on staff who would love to expound.
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oldgrowth
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Ron on Meander wrote: | | Could they possibly be sea lice? |
No – it was not sea lice or sand fleas. They are more like a leach with lots of legs, somewhat of a transparent grey or tan color. They seem to pick up the color of what they are on. You cannot see them when they are in the water because they swim too fast and in random directions. Somewhat like face flies, only in the water. The way I know they are there, is by their shadows from the sun shining on them.
It looks like the site is too busy and would need a photo to identify the thing.
I wish I would have captured some.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Clam worms, perhaps? |
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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The picture doesn’t look like the creature but if the head was pointed down instead of up and the legs a little longer than they appear in the picture, it is possible. The key would be, how fast can they swim. And why were we attacked. It was as if they went into a feeding frenzy when we walked across their domain.
on edit - After posting this I did some research and I don’t think they were clam worms. These were too short and small for clam worms.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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Dave
I've been around the sound for 50 plus years and have never seen your miniature sea monsters(at least when sober) but if I ever want to see them I'll be sure to come get you for bait. |
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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Lovin' it...must be something in the air in Rochester!!!!
| Larry Q wrote: | Dave
I've been around the sound for 50 plus years and have never seen your miniature sea monsters(at least when sober) but if I ever want to see them I'll be sure to come get you for bait. |
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| Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 8:43 am Post subject: |
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They seem to pick up the color of what they are on. You cannot see them when they are in the water because they swim too fast and in random directions.
Sounds like the SNOW SNAKES we used to have in Minnesota when we were kids. My dad said they were white so you couldn't see them in the snow but in the deep snow, you could sometimes feel them around your legs. Had my sisters convinced but I knew my dad too well by then. Fortunately, they never bit anyone.
Charlie
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| Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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Dave
After talking to my uncle who was raised on the sound in Bremerton, he doesn't recall being bitten on the feet by your mystery bugs, thats when my aunt reminded him that he always wore rubber boots on the beach.
He thinks maybe you have run into a new arrival from another land...
or perhaps your mystery bug is really a bucked toothed, ringed tailed, Bavarian water weasel with a foot fetish. |
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