Ok, so there had to be a video. Here are some of the goose barnacles (Lepas testudinata) that I found on Noordhoek beach last month. Bear in mind that they are out of their natural habitat (which is sea water) and were struggling in the sun. (I did try to drag some of the kelp back to the sea, but the pieces were huge and high up on the sand.) This group of barnacles was quite frisky, and shows you what a raft of kelp colonised by goose barnacles might look like if you swam underneath it.
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For more on goose barnacles, visit this post.
