(March 24 2006 continued...) Following the same method that beach yielded ten more cuttlebones from the latest strandline with reeds and an injured gull on it. A dead gull was present with them at Westcliff in December 11, probably onshore storms winds with rain has the same adverse effects on gulls at it does on us. Walking back on the more south-facing part of the same strandline from the coastguard station at Shoeburyness to Bell Wharf at Leigh, one could see a change in the associated biota from bivalve shells in the east (where not even algae were deposited, let alone more buoyant reeds and cuttlebones), to Hornwrack around eastern Southend, to Whiteweed at Leigh. Whiteweed is actually an animal hydroid colony which is termed Sertularia and like the Hornwrack (which is another animal colony, made of bryozoa termed Flustra) sinks in one or two days in sea-water when taken home.