found my first LIVE sand dollar! And it's a black one too. check it out!! dang.
 

happy ufcking friday fuckers! :thumbsup :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

that bad boy on the left is ALIVE!

http://i.imgur.com/mLpHCp1.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/qlwWUTL.jpg

Bad ass! we find the off the North Carolina coast, Nags Head!
Happy Friday!!!!

Now go put his ass back in the water STAT!!!!

wait, really?

That's racist

Used to find those on the beach here constantly as a kid, B.C. (Before the Condos.)

I've got to get out of this fucking town. We've killed everything good about it.

http://www.resortgraphicsllc.com/pin...ss_990x660.jpg

Sea urchin?

Luck you :p

You're on the wrong coast. ;)

Not a sand dollar. It's a sand foodstamp.

yes, murderer!

1 sand dollar = $0.85 Cdn.

You mean you found and murdered...

I was all over clearwater beach as a kid in the 1970's. Was just over at Bradenton Beach this past summer to celebrate my mom's birthday.

I never remember seeing a living sand dollar at any of the Florida beaches. Not that I was looking for them, but I just don't remember ever stumbling across one ever.

I lived on the beach in Ft. Lauderdale from 1980 to 1988 and never saw one either. Always found them like most of us find them...as skeletal remains

The only time I've seen them alive was in aquariums.

After reading about them I discovered that they are actually a form of Sea Urchin. I always figured that they lived a little offshore so any chances of finding one on the beach alive wouldn't be all that common?

Must have killed the white one!

Don't think I've ever seen one on the beach still alive. On the east coast of FL the water isn't real clear though until you get down in South FL so it's hard to see what is in the water much less on the bottom.

2x post blah

:1orglaugh

In a few beaches in FL they cover the sand and shallow water, they die pretty fast so put it back in

:2 cents:

Thats a aLien.

My partner took this photo in St Tropez, South France, on our tour through to Spain.

http://arsewithclass.com/images/starfish-.jpg

A close up http://arsewithclass.com/images/starfish=.jpg

Mostly further down Pinellas County around Sunset Beach and Pass-A-Grille, they were common enough to remember. Not infestations exactly, but I "adopted" a few for the day when I was little. When I found dead or near dead ones, which was much more frequent, I'd bring them home and my mother would bleach and dry them for me to paint with watercolors. Were you here early enough in the 70's to remember the Aquatarium? We spent a lot of time around that area when I was little.