Newly Listed: Sea Urchin Table Lamp

 

Sea Urchin Table Lamp, Ombre Coral Fan, Coastal Decor by StarHomeStudio

Pink Sands Turquoise Water Woman Floating Ocean Beach Digital Print Photo by GreenAcresMedia

Ocean Poster, Pink Sunset Print, Surfers Wall Art, Sea Waves Art, Pink Teal Colors Decor by S4StarSbySiSSy

Newly Listed: Nautical Sea Urchin Light

 

Nautical Sea Urchin Light, Pineapple Sea Urchin Lamp, Beach Cottage, Coastal Lighting, Table Lamp, Hollywood Regency, Mermaid light by StarHomeStudio

Palms of Highway 101, Palm Trees, Sunset, Carlsbad, California by SaraRileyPhotography

Winter Eve, Cliffs, Purple, Pink, Orange Sunset, Clouds, Colorful, South Ponto Beach, Carlsbad, California by SaraRileyPhotography

Ghost Net

Not a Halloween post as the title might suggest. Ghost nets are fishing nets that have been left or lost in the ocean by fishermen. These nets, often nearly invisible in the dim light, can be left tangled on a rocky reef or drifting in the open sea. They can entangle fish, dolphins, sea turtles, sharks, dugongs, crocodiles, seabirds, crabs, and other creatures, including the occasional human diver. Acting as designed, the nets restrict movement, causing starvation, laceration and infection, and suffocation in those that need to return to the surface to breathe. (from WikiPedia)

There are an estimated 640,000 tons of fishing nets in the oceans. These fishing nets remain adrift for a substantial amount of time and are responsible for the accidental capture of many marine mammals. This problem only continues to get worse each year. Even our reefs can be negatively affected. (from AricSwim).

I always collect trash during our beach combing, unfortunately I can not take it all (as there is so much) but I always try to get those nasty nets and fishing lure from the beach as they can get back in the sea with the next storm. The one I used for this Wall piece was a basket to catch crabs, I found a bunch of them and as they are metal I like to make something interesting of them as they are beautiful in their own way. This time I decided to make a conversation piece with one of them, and I think I succeeded, I wrote a lot :)

The piece is available at StarHomeStudio.
If you want to find out more about ghost nets and how they horribly effect marine life (not for the faint hearted) Google provides plenty of info and sad images.