Great Blistering Barnacles

It so happened that the Grandfathers decided to take a dive this time, to help the small creatures and the young ones, and to mediate between the sea and the mammals and birds and swimming and crawling creatures. The very large clams, the very large blue mussels, and the very large barnacles sacrificed themselves to the wind and to oxygenated air, so that others could eat, and so that they not be cut to ribbons in the surf. All along the beach the houses of the grandfathers lay, in their great, crusted beauty. They were beautiful when they lived - exquisite when they lived - and they looked like angels when they died. The seagulls, of course, were ecstatic and ate like cormorants. I will show you pictures as soon as I can. Robbie will help me. He is having some problems with some worms from something he ate, so is a little distracted - an "itchy arse" he says, whatever that is. Seems to be dragging himself around like a salp on shore. Perhaps it was the rotted salmon he ate?