I believe this orange blob, washed up on the beach, is a Sea Pork.
A type of sea squirt but more like a colony of lots of individual sea squirts. Which you can see if you zoom right in.
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Love the speed of these crabs as they run sideways across the sand.
They will eventually go down a hole, sometimes they sit in their hole with just their eyes above ground. Watching.
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Found this juvenile Masked Booby just sitting on the beach, a long way from it’s home and not moving.
After a few messages and calls it has now been rescued, bit thin and exhausted. Off to the zoo for expert treatment and recuperation.
Many thanks to Wildlife Rescue Queensland for getting someone out to collect it and take it to the zoo. https://wrq.org.au
Bribie Island, Queensland , Australia
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Update. After some food he was much brighter and off for expert attention with the zoo vets.
White Faced Heron, Egretta novaehollandiae, surprisingly unperturbed by people going past as it sits on a pedestrian bridge railing.
Bribie Island, Queensland, Australia.
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Stunning Blue and Gold Macaw at Maleny Bird World, Queensland, Australia.
Also known as Blue and Yellow Macaw.
Apparently they can be seen to blush as they don’t have feathers on their face apart from the tiny black lines.
Maleny Bird World has a collection of macaws and many other birds, some native some exotic. A lot are surrendered pets where for some reason the owner couldn’t keep them. These birds live a long time and are a big commitment. Beautiful to see in the big aviary, where they can fly about and interact with the other macaws, birds and with the human visitors.
https://www.malenybotanicgardens.com.au/aviary-tours/
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Bribie Island, Queensland, Australia
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Busy fishing by a bridge, quite unconcerned by the people going past or stopping to watch.
Bribie Island, Queensland, Australia
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Lots of jelly blobs on the beach. Not jellyfish these are the egg sacs of a sand snail. I’m not sure which exact species, possibly the Conical Sand Snail.
Each blob is full of hundreds of tiny eggs, no bigger than a grain of sand. When they eventually hatch most are apparently eaten as plankton but some obviously survive to lay this many egg sacs.
They don’t seem to dry out so must survive until the next high tide to be washed out to sea again.
Queensland, Australia
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I think this is a type of porcupinefish, looking happier than he probably should in the circumstances.
Not exactly friendly with some good spikes, an ability to puff it self up plus some species are poisonous. Enough to put off most predators. Not venomous though, which makes a change for an Australian creature.
Bribie Island, Queensland, Australia
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