Purple Sea Snail
These exquisite sea snails are blown ashore in the summer north-easterly winds, usually with bluebottles Physalia utriculus which they predate.
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Purple
Beautiful shell. I love it!
thank you pixitales, it is extraordinary, i agree 🙂
Very pretty indeed. 😉
i love to find them, often blowing bubbles and even prettier 🙂
So cool… love it.. 🙂
thank you bams 🙂
It’s lovely, I had to google bluebottle because here they are common flies!
oh sorry, i thought of saying more but it has been a busy day pruning fruit trees and gardening 🙂
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So beautiful!
yes, always a precious find on the beach 🙂
fragile and beautiful!
exactly, thanks for visiting yi-ching lin 🙂
What a beautiful, delicate image! Just perfect!
so glad you like this purple shell 🙂
Wow! This is beautiful!
a surprise to see a purple shell!
Beautiful and unique (at least for me :-).
i am sure you are right sharon, i dont know of any other purple shells … the colour comes from eating the bluebottles, which are big stingers like portuguese men of war.
beautiful
thank you for this lovely comment!
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What a lovely change from all the flower images I’ve seen in this challenge. And it’s perfectly okay for me to point it out as I’m guilty of the same crime (posting a flower).
yes there are a lot of flowers, but all beautiful!
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Lovely!! A beautiful shot!
Great shot – I love this! I haven’t seen a purple shell before. Purple is one of my favorite colors.
Purple sea snails and blue bottles…just a magical Summer scene.
That is exquisite!
This is a beautiful little snail. Lovely photo.
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Beautiful picture. I like it a lot.
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