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Sep 24, 09 Comments Off
 Pillar Coral Hi my friends how is everything this fine evening?? I went to bed last night not feeling so well like a cold was coming on or something and then today was the same thing?? I did go with Aimee on a walk to the north coast with the dogs this morning but felt pretty run down the whole way. I pretty much just stayed home all day working on the computer and took a little nap but I still feel a little pre-sickness coming on? Aimee just took off for a night out with the girls and I am going to bed early with the dogs, so that’s our exciting day!!
Here’s something new for you, this is a close-up I took the other night of the side of a giant Pillar Coral! These are Stony corals, often called hard corals and are the basic building blocks of tropical coral reefs. These animals (polyps) secrete calcium carbonate to form hard cups called Corallites that provide protection for their soft delicate bodies. The yellow you see here is the calcium carbonate and all the little brown fingers with white tops are the animals or polyps, cool huh?? What’s really unique about this shot is that you can see some of the Corallites, normally with this pillar coral all you see are millions of polyps covering the whole structure.
I feel like I have a slight fever so I’m going to bed, talk to you tomorrow, Barry
24-9-2009
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