Rocks with Golden Hair

It is not often that you see rocks sprouting beautiful satiny golden hair. That’s what it looked like on the shore of Gun Landing Cove in Cape Breton when I visited a few years back. Under water it could be taken for mermaid’s tresses. What a flight of fancy. Turns out that it is probably a seaweed that we don’t seem to have here in the UK called Soft Sour Weed (Desmarestia viridis).