Explore9 min read
Beachcombing the Wrack Line: What the Tide Just Delivered
A field guide to the wrack line — identifying kelp holdfasts, blades and pneumatocysts, finding egg cases and drift treasures, and knowing what you may keep.
Tom Okafor ·
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3 articles
Field Notes8 min read
Field Notes: Reading the Wrack Line with Volunteers
A Tidewright field note: twice a year, volunteers walk Tasmania's beaches counting cast kelp — because the wrack line tells us what the reef can't.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Encyclopedia8 min read
Goose Barnacle: Castaways of the Drift Line
Lepas anatifera spends its life attached to flotsam — kelp rafts, driftwood, plastic. Anatomy, the goose myth, tsunami debris and where to find them.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·