pear cordial! Yulya is going all out tonight lol

absolutely disgusting

>strange fish
Reverse image search says that pic shows a sablefish. Host doesn't think you saw a sablefish. They live in medium depths on muddy seafloor, not at sandy beaches. I think it was a croaker, maybe a California corbina?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_corbina

But hey, nowadays due to 'diversity' you can find anything anywhere. How big was it?

The centipede was killed by one of my countless Pholcus guardian spiders, so we slept peacefully.
I just counted 15 in the living room. They can tackle everything from mosquitos and small ants to large moths - and even centipedes. Very cool animals, we breed them on purpose. The neighborhood loli is not amused by them but her opinion doesn't count to me.

A fucking 5cm / 2in centipede dropped from the ceiling at night. I know those guys from the tropics but even old host has never seen such a large one here. Millipedes are cool, but centipedes rank very very low on my list of favorite animals.

I'm disgusted by those too. They're huge and venomous here and also quick. Nothing you want in your apartment. I hope you survived the night. Fortunately I had nothing in my apartment recently, a roach a while ago but my cat ate it.

The fish looks cool but I have no idea about fish. Been a while since I went snorkeling. You gotta go to one of the islands a bit off the city to see something decent.

We get those.

Today while at the beach I saw quite a few of these:



In the shallows among all the myriad swimmers and waders in the shallows about hip deep. I'd never seen such fish before. I've seen other fish that were yellow and orange ones occasionally, lots of rays, purple medusa jellyfish, along with dolphins, the occasional whale and sea lions and seals but never this fish before. Maybe it was because the water was especially clear and calm today.

Spent way too long in the cold water but I was mostly fine because of my spring suit which is new. I never had one before and it was really nice not to be freezing my butt off.  I remember being young and not caring that my toes are going numb, so I had to limit the time to 1 hour increments or who knows what would have happened to my young beach mate.

I believe the water was supposed to be 72 Freedom degrees, as the air temperature was also that, but at some point just beyond where the water was above my waste, the water temperature decreased sharply to icy cold. Even with 'Super El Nino' the water is just stubbornly frigid. Without that cold current, my city would be insanely hot like Florida.

Anyway, had fun, still hate sand, spent an hour washing everything off at home.