Friday, November 27, 2009

Sponges (real) for sale on the Dock


The photo will get bigger if you go, "Click!"

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.

nopham said...

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

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.

Small City Scenes said...

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

cieldequimper said...

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

brattcat said...

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

EG CameraGirl said...

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

Lowell said...

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

Lowell said...

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

Leif Hagen said...

Are you going to take a sponge bath, Jacob?

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.

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.

Frank said...

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

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).

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.

Unknown said...

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