Special Trip Post! Part VIII What the-! These Shells are Alive!!!

To be honest, I just wanted to jump right back in the water when we got to the other side. Although, I stifled that urge in order to take some pictures.

You know what happened next right? I jumped into the water!

...not.

I waded into the water instead. I had to be careful. There were coral pieces and shells littered around the area. Although, once I went a safe distance away, I dived into the water. The water was warm. It almost felt welcoming. The only thing that bothered me was the stench.

I don't know how to describe it. It smelled like...something was rotting. Maybe it was fish poop! Wait. On second thought, the whole ocean is practically the bathroom for the animals. That thought almost made me want to get out of the water.

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Half-Truth (I'd Still Swim in the Water)

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Decidedly, I ignored it in favor of talking with my sister. We were trying to find shells, and I asked to see if she found any. She did! It was a shell, but it was in a cone-shaped spiral.

I took the shell out of her hand, and we went our separate ways to find new shells. After a while, I found more cone-shaped spiraled shells. They were rather cool to look at, so I decided to observe them and see if there were any differences.

All of a sudden, it happened.

With wide eyes, I saw something starting to wiggle out of the shell. With a slight poke of its head, its weird antennae-antler thingies started probing the surroundings. Slowly, it started coming out. It was a sea snail!

When it felt brave enough, the snail started moving! I watched with a face of disgusted (but not that disgusted) fascination as the snail slowly traversed my hand. Slowly, more of the snails started coming out of their shells. One by one, they started moving. I even saw a tiny snail climb on top of one of the bigger ones!

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Not the Right Snail, but Close Enough!

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I took a breath through my nose in fascination...and recoiled at the stench of the snails! Whoo wee! That was not pleasant! Come to think of it, they smelled exactly like the odor that I was thinking about earlier!

All of a sudden, a realization struck through my brain. Quickly, I started looking for signs of the snails as I held the ones in my hand with a careful but tight grip. 

As I walked nearer to a wall of rock, I saw it. On the wall were hundreds of snails firmly affixed to the side where the wall met water. They peppered the side, and some of them were above the water level! Maybe that was due to the high tide.

I stared at the snail-littered wall for a few moments, and I decided to put the snails back where I found them. I hope they'll be okay. Although...I heard that these types of snails are the ones that can be eaten. I hope that they were kidding...