Here is a bed of abalone, not yet grown to "legal size" for human harvesting.
I like abalone as creatures more than as food these days. In my youth, I collected and fried my share of these mollusks, but now I like watching them underwater, watching them move about slowly, ponderously, as they seek their own food. Abalone move less like garden snails and more like rhinos in my estimation -- formidable hulks, even if still juvenile in nature, as these ones are.
