This month, I am hosting the Carnival of the Blue — an online smorgasbord of recent posts from bloggers around the world who write about the ocean. It’s a chance for loyal readers of this blog to find some new bloggers to check out, and for readers of other blogs to discover mine. Here is a sample of some writing worthy of your precious reading attention:

1. Squirm of Worms on Wandering Weeta’s blog. A moving tribute in words and pictures to that most humble of coastal inhabitants.
2. Eight Ways Elephant Seals Have Evolved on Kind of Curious. The blogger explores some of the unique adaptations of the elephant seal, and posts some terrific photos of these odd animals at the Piedras Blancas State Marine Reserve in California.
3. Tuna and Reflections on the Gulf Oil Spill – Conversations With My Grandpa on Observations of a Nerd. Christie Wilcox contemplates the art and science of cleaning up oil spills.
4. Conquest of the Land, A La Chubby Checker on NeuroDojo. Zen Faulkes introduces readers to the terrestrial escapades of a fish, the blenny.
5. The Mangove Land Crabs of Punta Santiago and The Dolphins of Punta Santiago on the time traveling blog. The author introduces readers to the animals he encountered while exploring the coast of Puerto Rico.
6. A Drop in the Ocean, on the of winds and water blog. Blogging sailors Darcy and Kyle report on their experience breaking free of the ICW and sailing the open oceans.
7. Gulf Oil Spill Disaster: Spawn of the Living Dead for Atlantic Tuna on the Living the Scientific Life blog. GrrlSientist warns of the devastating consequences that the Deepwater Horizon spill will have for the beloved (and delicious) Atlantic Bluefin tuna.
8. Humpback Whales Realize the Importance of Girl Power, on Dr. Carin Bondar’s blog. Dr. Bondar explores the friendly and durable relationships that female humpback whales develop with each other.
9. The Water is Alive and Why is a Cooked Lobster Red? on Deep Type Flow. Blogger Alistair Dove answers a pair of question that I had frankly never bothered to ask myself!

Enjoy the carnival!

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