just before we left france, my husband and the two kids got invited onto a commercial fishing boat for the day. the day began at 3:00 in the morning, and ended 12 hours later at 3:00 in the afternoon. they brought back a lot of stories, three cases of minor sunburn, and one still blog subject, that got plucked from the writhing mass of sea life on deck after the net had been hauled in. from the sound of it, if i’d had my camera and some white paper on board, i think i could have gathered enough still blog images for a month.

cockle saltwater clam

mediterranean sea, near valras, france