Now we know Marianne's ice cream is available in the East Bay, 15 minutes from DURA MATER, prizes will be easier to award during Shelter In Place:
We've already identified the amazing pelagic water skimmer, the Hallobates Sericeus, of the Eastern Pacific Gyre (Pacific High).
This oceanic animal is closer to home, and likely encountered by singlehanded cruisers to the 8 Channel Islands off Southern California. Are you listening TIGER BEETLE?
What is this animal that may feature which of the following:
1) A weapon that helped win WW II. 2) a sound for falling asleep in the bunk 3) a light as hot as the sun 4) a noise louder than a rocket launch 5) cavitation not associated with your rudder or propeller. 6) a sperm whale.
One guess/24 hours!
Wait just a minute! What am I: your proxy? I can't have sailors breaking down my door in Oakland yammering about how they won something you promised! Besides, I've just spent hours negotiating an upwind slip on E Dock for my favorite former Commodore. It was grueling work and now here I am slaving away in the kitchen baking lemon bread as thanks to our wonderful harbormaster, Tim. BTW, coming down your way Tuesday.
perhaps I can defuse this...
Is the answer #2; Snapping Shrimp?
DH
I listened to NPR yesterday while doing boat wiring and heard the whole story. I already knew about the snapping shrimp as I had been a live aboard in Sausalito for many years. What I didn’t know was “the rest of the story.” So there is more to the right answer.
Tom P.
Nobody has, as yet, answered correctly by selecting from the above 6 options ...although DAZZLER and HEDGEHOG have identified correctly a benthic crustacean, the snapping shrimp, AKA "pistol shrimp." This obviously eliminates #6, the sperm whale, leaving 5 options to choose from. Heads up, more than one option of the remaining 5 may be valid.
As for Marianne's ice cream being available 15 minutes from DM, no worries, the location is not Jackie's freezer..Rather, a store at position: 1850 Solano Ave., Berkeley/Kensington/Albany confluence, which lies 8 miles from DM.
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I'll take 3 and 5, Alex.
“(It) essentially create(s) this cavitation bubble,” said coral reef biologist Nancy Knowlton of the Smithsonian Institute. “And when the bubble collapses, it generates that snap sound,” as opposed to the impact of the claws themselves making the noise.
More importantly, the collapse of the bubble generates, for a split second, temperatures of 8,000 degrees Fahrenheit, nearly as hot as the surface of the sun, and also, oddly, a flash of light. The resulting shockwave bombards the shrimp’s prey, which if it’s lucky will die instantly because it’s then dragged into the pistol shrimp’s burrow and consumed."
What a small world!
While visits to CBC and Skip (of course) included an option for Mariannes macapuno ice cream. But , stop the presses as the newspaper folks used to say!
My other east bay haunt is in Albany, a mere half block from Solano Avenue.
Gracious hospitality and special ice cream at both locations.
Sounds like essential travel to me.
As for the puzzle, I am bumfuzzled.
Ants
Somewhat unfair since I heard the story on NPR, but hint, hint... There’s a very interesting story with #1.
And it’s my Sue that discovered the East Bay source for Marianne’s ice cream. We have not yet explored the range of locally available flavors.
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Tom P.