DSC_5933 Brown seaweed (Myriogloea intestinalis) detail of frond. Like a shoe-lace in appearance, up to 1m long, and clothed in a thick velvety felt. Sparse branches from the base, and coloured rich olive, to chocolate brown. Intertidal on rocks, in areas of sand scouring on open coasts. Brighton Beach *
DSC_8960 Sea potato (Leathesia marina) exposed at low tide. Smooth and round to spreading and lobed bubbled sacs, becoming wrinkled and irregularly folded with age. Interidal, often on coralline turf, on moderately exposed reefs. Karitane *
