WEIRD THINGS
WASHED ASHORE
G'day folks,
It is no longer shocking to see strange things wash ashore
since this is one thing the world is becoming too familiar with. After all,
more than 70% of our planet is covered in water, so on occasion, some rare
and weird things will somehow manage to wash up on shores in different
locations. In fact, lots of man-made remnants and even some
pleasant-looking rare animals have washed up on shores over the years. While
this is seen as a big environmental issue, sometimes mind-boggling things wash
up with the shambles.
From little-understood sea creatures that you could
call marine mysteries, to huge toys and other weird things. And yes, those
unexpected things usually gets everybody to scratch their heads in shock. As
long as things keep slipping into the waters around the world, and as long as
the planet remains surrounded by water, stranger things are bound to float
around out there …Perhaps bigger and stranger things than we can
think of.
In September 2005, an army of giant squids, weighing as
much as 17 pounds, washed up in Newport Beach Calif. The bug-eyed creatures,
believed to be Humboldt squid, naturally live in deep waters, so it was hard
for locals to come across them both on land and sea. Authorities explained that
the squid might have been chasing after bait fish and gotten too close to
shore. Other factors, such as warm ocean temperatures or record rainfall were
also suspected.
This enormous floating eyeball washed up on the sand in
Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 2012. The softball-sized eyeball was found by
a man who was out for a stroll. He kicked the undamaged eyeball around a few
times before taking it home to preserve it in his refrigerator.
Fortunately he didn’t take it home to feed on it but simply to keep it
fresh until someone from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
(FWC) could come and identify it. Normally, rumors of massive sea monsters
began spreading throughout the area.
Wildlife authorities quickly ruined the
fun by identifying the giant oculus as belonging to a huge swordfish (a specie
that can reach fourteen hundred pounds). Well, it didn’t end there as many
still asked how the eye wound up on the beach? The FWC solved the mystery too
by saying that although it was definitely uncommon to see a fully intact
eyeball separate from any other body parts, this one had clear, straight-line
cuts around the tissue—indicating that some horrific fisherman carefully cut
out the baby blue and then threw it overboard.
In 2006, a tractor-trailer-size container filled with
thousands of bags of Doritos washed up on a beach in Frisco. When the container
was broken open by Charter boats captains, they discovered that it was brimming
with Doritos. Surprisingly a horde of the packets were still sealed and
undamaged. But the story regrettably doesn’t have an entirely happy ending
as the container carrying the Dips was never recovered!!
This 30-foot fishing boat carrying more than one ton of
marijuana washed up onto the Southern California coast. The boat was seen
close to Ventura and the Los Angeles county line near Leo Carillo State Park.
Anyway, what’s more shocking is that till date no one has come forward to claim
the cargo and although one person was detained on the beach for “sampling” the
product, the appearance of the boat and it’s cargo remains a mystery. According
to the U.S. Coast Guard, a helicopter crew could not locate anyone in the
water. No arrests or injuries have been reported in connection to the vessel as
of yet outside the person who was detained on the beach.
Clancy's comment: Wow, what next? We can only imagine what might float ashore.
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