Before a sea pumpkin becomes a … well, sea pumpkin, it spends it’s life as a spiky sea urchin living in a rock pool or gully somewhere on the coast. But once the creature inside the shell dies the spikes fall off and only a green “pumpkin” looking shell is left behind. These sea pumpkins are very popular with people, specially kids, picking up shells.
Sea pumpkin on the beach
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Published by Jonker Fourie - Firefly the Travel Guy
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nice shot 🙂
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I love those sea urchin shells and have seen them in many colors on our west coast. Makes a nice pumpkin.
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Great shot. My sons used to pick them up and make necklaces from them.
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This is fabulous! omg!
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