Field guide No. 106

A conch shell made into a telephone receiver floats over a pink salt lake at sunset, its coiled cord trailing down to the water.

Shell service

It’s the sea calling.

A conch shell made into a telephone receiver floats over a pink salt lake at sunset, its coiled cord trailing down to the water.

Field noteConches have long been held to the ear. Wiring one up is easy; floating it is the hard part.

Specimen
No. 106
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Where it doesn’t exist
A pink salt lake at sunset, line open.
Nearest existing relative
A conch shell, and a telephone receiver.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Objects

Also possible, also breaking physics