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15-09-2010, 08:27 PM
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| | | wierd animal tracks on Gower beach
 I've seen some really odd tracks on the beach in Gower today. All over the beach from the sea to the mid tide level, some 4" wide some just 1cm wide looking for all the world like bike tracks, only weaving and curving and made up of what I can only describe as apostrophe shaped marks!!! They go all over the sand, across and round and round rocks. There appeared to be some going or coming to a large hole in the sand. Didn't fancy poking my hand in!! Never seen anything like it in all my life walking on the beach. What on earth made them? A giant sea cucumber, sea urchins???? |
17-09-2010, 09:52 PM
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| | | Re: wierd animal tracks on Gower beach
Hi there nimblejacks and a bid welcome to WAB, sorry I can't help you with the tracks, someone on here will be able to though I reckon. Did you get any photos? Makes ID a helluva lot easier.
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19-09-2010, 05:36 PM
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| | | Re: wierd animal tracks on Gower beach
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Originally Posted by nimblejacks  I've seen some really odd tracks on the beach in Gower today. All over the beach from the sea to the mid tide level, some 4" wide some just 1cm wide looking for all the world like bike tracks, only weaving and curving and made up of what I can only describe as apostrophe shaped marks!!! They go all over the sand, across and round and round rocks. There appeared to be some going or coming to a large hole in the sand. Didn't fancy poking my hand in!! Never seen anything like it in all my life walking on the beach. What on earth made them? A giant sea cucumber, sea urchins???? | Could they be turtle tracks? |
19-09-2010, 07:05 PM
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| | | Re: wierd animal tracks on Gower beach
I can't help either I'm afraid. 
Welcome to WAB nimblejacks.
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20-09-2010, 07:36 AM
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| | | Re: wierd animal tracks on Gower beach
I would have done exactly the same as the father and son who found the turtle and put it back in the water. It seems a little odd to me to say that they cannot cope with the cold water when presumably they make a decision to enter our coastal waters unless forced to do so by currents or wind.
It's an interesting thought that the tracks could have been made by a turtle. |
20-09-2010, 11:16 AM
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| | | Re: wierd animal tracks on Gower beach
If it's anything like this, it's a crab.  | | |
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