That's one of the words my daughter and her friend used to describe the handful of sea cucumbers they were able to touch at the Maui Ocean Center. There was no one else around when this very nice lady in one of the tanks began gathering several varieties of sea cucumbers, sea stars, and other creatures for the girls to examine. They loved it! For more 'I' photos, please visit ABC Wednesday.
very nice ^^
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The marine life is cool, great shots.
ReplyDeleteYeah, kinda icky, I'D agree
ReplyDeleteROG, ABC Wednesday team
Icky but facinating!
ReplyDeleteAnn
Can you say icky and beautiful in the same sentence...that's what they are.
ReplyDeleteSome species of coral reef sea cucumbers "eviscerate" their insides when startled to protect themselves from predators. One of my marine biology instructors said South Sea Islanders would use sea cucumbers like a ball to play catch with... whoever got eviscerated on first was the loser! I know, really icky.
ReplyDeleteInteresting post, nice photographs. I am greeting
ReplyDeleteIcky is an apt description. :))
ReplyDeleteAt first I thought the big tan one in the back in the first photo was a Portobello mushroom, and I thought, "What's icky about that? LOL Actually, I find them all more intriguing and impressive than icky - what fascinating critters, and how fun that your daughter and her friend got to interact with them, up close and personal. I imagine them feeling kind of rubbery. (I got to pet some Bat Rays at the Monterey Aquarium once (one of them wanted to come home with me, and if I'd had a comfy place for him (her?) to live, I'd have happily obliged!), and thought they felt like velour-covered rubber! I adored them).
ReplyDeleteHave you ever tasted a sea cucumber???
ReplyDeleteIn 2010, during a business trip through China, I tasted one (among many other much greater dishes) in a restaurant of the Chinese City of Dalian.
The sound I made when chewing them was more or less a kind of "Icky-icky-icky"... ;-))
A doubtful pleasure... ;-)
Uwe.