Whew, AW's back.
Fizzy, even when insurance pays, it's a huge inconvenience to be away from your home and your stuff--and you've been inconvenienced six weeks already! I hope you keep busy and the time passes quickly. Or that you become a huge fan of hotel porn and it passes even quicker. (Bill the insurer.)
The place where we spent Saturday night was hard hit, although not the hotel itself. If we had not left quite early, we would have been waylaid by the NY Thruway's multiple closures between here and there, although I like to think we'd have made it home via back roads by now. Ever since we got lost following a closure of the Thruway by politicized Native Americans, we always carry a good state map.
Marine biology question one:
Just past high tide, on the Atlantic side of Cape Cod, we saw hundreds, possibly low thousands, of grape-sized clear gel thingies. They had no color. Some remained grape-shaped, a slightly elongated sphere, while others flattened like the
glass beads you buy in crafts stores to hold your flowers in place in the vase. (This image is quite close to the appearance of the flat ones, except they looked wetter and were never clumped together.)
The largest had faintly ridged exteriors going from one axis to the other, like a pumpkin, which minimized their rolling when a wave reached them. Large or small, we could find no other features. No specks, cloudy areas, irregularity in shape. Nothing, just these gelatinous blobs. One woman, asking others what they might be, said she'd pinched one and it felt slimy and did not sting.
Some kind of egg sacs? What kind of fish--or mermaid? The mystical, magical source of flower-arrangement glass blobs?
Maryn, puzzled