Field guide No. 1147

A cluster of mussels clings to a barnacled pier post while streams of water fall upward-looking from them into the sea between the pilings. They have a home, and it is draining.

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Downpour, upside the pier.

A cluster of mussels clings to a barnacled pier post while streams of water fall upward-looking from them into the sea between the pilings. They have a home, and it is draining.

Field noteMussels on a pier post send water streaming upward into the sea; they have a home and it drains the wrong way.

Specimen
No. 1147
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
A pier that drains downward.
Nearest existing relative
mussels crusted on a barnacled piling.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking physics