Best of Mike #53

This is a pixture of Branching Anemone, taken very close up.

One of those many things, underwater, that looks like a plant but is really an animal.

Most often they are found tucked into cracks and crevices along the reef in shallow water.

It has tentacles that end in clusters that look a lot like fingers. And, like all anemones, you will often find small shrimp or crabs in amongst those tentacles.

But what I really think about each time I look at this pixture is.... "to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before ..."

These are the voyages of the Starship Mike, a lifelong mission .....