(Note: no it's not Earth Day! I jumped the gun. Gotta get new glasses! Whoo-hoo! two more days to post ocean photos!)
Today is Earth Day. It's kind of been lost between the fire in Notre Dame and the fact that it falls on the Saturday between Good Friday and Easter.
Today's Earth Day ocean reminder is of one my favorite ocean creatures: reef squid. There are so many cool and unusual creatures in the ocean but reef squid are among the coolest. They are aware and wary of our presence in the water but unless we do something sudden and/or stupid, they usually don't swim away. In fact, if you lay quietly in the water, you can play with them. They normally keep their tentacles together in front of them. Sometimes they bend them down, sometimes they bend them up. If you put your arms out it front of you in the same position as their tentacles and then follow them - up, down, middle - it becomes like a dance. Elaine loves to play with reef squid like this. That's how she got her mermaid name: Dances with Reef Squid.
So it's Earth Day. Every day needs to be Earth Day. Honor Mother Earth and Mother Ocean. We need them a whole lot more than they need us!
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