Sea Sick?

I stumbled across this rough heart shape on a beach in Oamaru a few weeks back. This beach is well known for Yellow Eyed penguins. There are signs pleading with visitors to be off the beach by 3 pm. I was there at 1 pm.This beach is also inhabited by fur seals. I saw one as I surveyed the beach. I was looking for the best way to stroll with out disturbing the seal. You don't see the other eight until you nearly stumble over them!
I think mark on the sand maybe some sort of bodily fluid ejected from a seal.

Crust

Nature works in very mysterious ways. Is this a sign from the local sparrows and starlings, thanking us for feeding them, or just a random design pecked out in a hurry before a cat, lunges at them from the surrounding bushes?
I've been noticing a few shapes that we interpret as love hearts have been turning up in places I been lurking in recently.

Daisies

Heading out of Oamaru towards Dunedin, I found these daisies bursting out of a concrete retaining wall. They were like a pink, white and green cushion, just hanging there. There were several others of smaller size. I'm intriqued with the way plants just get on and grow where ever they can.

South Island

Still in Oamaru, this masterpiece of the plasterers skill was being accentuated by the early morning sun. It resides opposite the railway station. There is a real southern pride coming through, who needs the North Island?

Fabrics

A couple of weeks ago we were in Oamaru for the weekend. Helen was adjudicating a speech competition and I was free to roam and snap or scavange. The busyiness of these printed fabrics so carefully displayed, were just begging to be photographed. I was tempted to purchase some and have a shirt made.

Fishing Trophy

I invested a dollar in this symbol of male competition and blood lust. Currently I am the holder of this highly esteemed piece of plastic. My dear friend Grae has occasionally wrestled it from its' rightful place on our mantlepiece. The cracks in the wall are from the Feb 22 earthquake. The trophy did not move at a millimeter, an indication of where it feels safe? Sadly there has not been too much fishing this year.

Blackboard specials

This is the specials of the day blackboard at Lens cafe. Dishes inspired by the earthquake of Sept 4 2010. There are also some biased drawings referring to my fish catching prowes. Jealousy is a cruel mistress.