Squirting "gooey ducks"

We walked over this patch of merrily squirting "gooey ducks" on our low tide walk. Our clothes were soon soaked by the orchestra of giant clams' veritable water park of dancing water squirts. Here is a short video clip of their collective efforts.



For more information, this is what Wikipedia has to say about geoducks:

The geoduck (pronounced /ˈɡuː.iːdʌk/ "gooey duck"^[1]), Panopea abrupta, is a species of very large saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Hiatellidae.

The shell of this clam is large, about 15 to over 20 cm in length (about 7 to 9 inches), but the extremely long siphons make the clam itself very much longer than this: the "neck" or siphons alone can be one meter in length.

To read more about geoducks click here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoduck

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