It has been a busy week with hubby and family up since last Friday, last full week at work before changing jobs so apologies for lack of blogging.
The weather was rubbish for family’s visit (though has been incredible weather here the last 2 days with temperatures in the 20’s!) but we still made it out to the beach – shell hunting in the rain still can be fun – honestly! 
We went to Coll beach – a beach i really like but don’t get to too often.
The pebbles at the south end of the beach were covered in a weird type of seaweed (or could be algae) that i have never encountered on the island before – it looked like a large spider had encased the pebbles in a web (over active imagination!)
31 May , 2009 at 4:39 pm
hope the new job goes well
2 June , 2009 at 10:38 am
The rockweed looks like a green algae, something like Spongomorpha Arcta / Cladophora Arcta
The fact that it’s turning white probably means it’s dying.
Have a read of http://www.fisherycrisis.com/chondrus/whitestuff.htm
Whatever it is it looks kinda gross!
2 June , 2009 at 5:55 pm
ewwww!
someone said it looked like that blue green algae – guessing similar type of thing!
3 June , 2009 at 3:52 pm
Doubt you can eat it but … River Cottage have just released a book on coastal foraging: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Edible-Seashore-River-Cottage-Handbook/dp/0747595313/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244040710&sr=8-1
3 June , 2009 at 11:16 pm
you wouldn’t want to eat this stuff – it is a form of Algae which would make you very ill apparently!
8 June , 2009 at 12:27 pm
We need a new post – with a nice picture! Every time I check I get beach melanoma image … eug!
12 June , 2009 at 8:05 am
I hope the new job is going well. You have started now I assume. It seems odd to be blogging from the same end of the world as you. When the children were young (30+ years ago – argh!) our local beach was Coll Beach but I can never recall seeing algae on it. The ferocity of storms would sometimes remove all the sand and then a few days or weeks later it would return as if by magic.