A dog walker stopped in his tracks by a bizarre sight as he strolled along a Welsh beach later found out it was worth around £4,000. Holidaymaker Dave McGirr discovered thousands of “extraordinary” white-shelled creatures clinging to a 20ft tree trunk washed up on the Criccieth shoreline.
As a keen photographer, his first instinct was to capture the “peculiar” driftwood castaways before looking them up on Google: “I found out they are gooseneck barnacles, described as rare 'alien-like' sea creatures,” he said. “They are said to be a delicacy, selling for more than £80 a kilo.”
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