Friday, November 27, 2009

Sponges (real) for sale on the Dock


The photo will get bigger if you go, "Click!"
Posted by at 8:19 PM

16 comments:

Don and Krise said...

Cool tub! Oh, and I couldn't figure out what to "click", so I embiggened it. Hope you don't mind.

November 27, 2009 at 10:16 PM
nopham said...

See this picture I can't wait to go to Cedar Key again.

November 27, 2009 at 10:23 PM
Anonymous said...

Ok, I take it that's a regular sized tub & those corals are just really big?!?!! I used to have a fish tank w/ those kinds of decorations (corals) in it - I think I still have some of the sea dollars.

November 27, 2009 at 10:41 PM
Small City Scenes said...

Sponges from the sea--nice.
Love the tub too. MB

November 28, 2009 at 3:41 AM
cieldequimper said...

Nice display, I'll have two small ones please. Everything is small in Europe, so I can't get a big one!

November 28, 2009 at 7:03 AM
brattcat said...

All that's missing is some water and a rubber duckie.

November 28, 2009 at 7:34 AM
EG CameraGirl said...

The tub looks small...or are the sponges really big?

November 28, 2009 at 8:05 AM
Lowell said...

@ EG - The tub may be a bit smaller than usual, but most of the sponges are quite large.

November 28, 2009 at 8:34 AM
Lowell said...

@ Brattcat - Safe Leif from Eagan stole the rubber duckie! Made me really, really mad, too! ;-)

November 28, 2009 at 8:48 AM
Leif Hagen said...

Are you going to take a sponge bath, Jacob?

November 28, 2009 at 8:50 AM
Anonymous said...

In a way it is sad they are killed for public display and possible use. I think they were alive once upon a time. Maybe I am wrong.

November 28, 2009 at 11:07 AM
Chattahoochee Valley Daily said...

Great shot, Jacob. I love natural sponges. We went to Santorini a few years ago and the price of the sponge is based on the amount of water it soaks up. The more water, the higher the price.

November 28, 2009 at 5:05 PM
Frank said...

You better buy up all these natural sponges for bath time, great-grandpa!!

November 28, 2009 at 6:52 PM
Mirela said...

LOL, I thought you went crazy on Black Friday and got them as a deal :))). Are they grown or wild? In Croatia picking real sponges out of the sea is forbidden (ecology thing).

November 29, 2009 at 11:22 AM
Lowell said...

@ Mirela - These are real. I remember some years back while visiting Cedar Key, boats would come in loaded with sponges.

I don't know if harvesting wild sponges is illegal here or not.

November 29, 2009 at 1:11 PM
Unknown said...

I surely would get some fantastic items for my collection there!

November 30, 2009 at 12:51 PM

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