Sunday, October 3, 2010

Microscope back in action

I finally dug out the microscope and all its accoutrements last week, and on a trip to the beach with Louka collected some seawater to look at. Nothing to see at all, which was rather disappointing. Next day I collected some hair-like seaweed from the rockpools:




and a small pink jellyfish washed up on the sand:


Graham contributed an unidentified leaf:



and a spider's exoskeleton:



I also looked at the wing of a dead moth I'd found ages ago:

The software for the dino-eye camera doesn't work on my new computer, but the software for the built-in webcam does, so all is well.