long gone. We found a few still living colonies in their striking blue...
And even another bluish life form which seemed attached to them...
But efforts to return these still living groups to the sea were fruitless, the waves just washing them back to the beach boneyard.
[Learned, a few days later, that the blue stoways are buoy barnacles, who can produce their own styrofoam-like "buoy" and float along surface of the water but are happy to hitch a ride on a velella!]
