Slimy pipe creatures

Posted by Aaron Schmidt (Auckland, New Zealand) on 6 October 2005 in Animal & Insect.

I have no idea what these creatures were but we found them attached to a washed-up log down on Piha beach. They would come pulsating out of there shells as if to breathe the salty air. Freaky!

Canon EOS REBEL
1/250 second
F/6.3
ISO 200
55 mm