At one point on the second voyage of the Microbian naturalist, Lexandis Pisking, the ship took some damage during a storm and took shelter in a large bay on the east side of Lennox. After the storm passed, the crew set about repairing the ship. And Pisking, resorting to form, wandered the beach, drawing whatever creatures he encountered.
Plants and Algae
Frilled Sea Lettuce
Pod Kelp
Sandbar Palm
Surf Grass
Sponges
Lantern Sponge
Cnidarians
Lady's Hat Coral
Green-nose Anemone
Bluefinger Jellyfish
Comb Hydroid
Worms
Twisted Tube Worm
Echinoderms
Handon's Sea Star
Curling Brittle Star
Wandering Sea Urchin
Solar Disc Sand Dollar
Horned Sea Cucumber
Arthropods
Glimpson's Sand Beetle
Lennoxan Sandfly
Mariner Dragonfly
Blue-backed Bulbous Scud
Stalked Barnacle
Strident Hermit Crab
Least Mole Crab
Mollusks
Goblin-ear Abalone
Fig Limpet
Striped Cowrie
Unicorn Whelk
Orange Moon Snail
Double Turban Snail
Long-beaked Nudibranch
Three-crested Sea Hare
Roseate Clam
Crookneck Oyster
Bowl Scallop
Common Bluff Mussel
Greenback Chiton
Fairy Octopus
Birds
Olive-headed Loon
Queen Grebe
Long-beaked Albatross
Eastern Storm Petrel
Teal Penguin
Blue-footed Gannet
Magnificent Pelican
Intertidal Cormorant
Red-headed Spoonbill
Rufous Whistling Duck
Painted Wigeon
Collared Eider
Ring-necked Scaup
Buff-breasted Scoter
Toxic Rail
Mewling Plover
Red-breasted Oystercatcher
Green-crowned Avocet
White-barred Curlew
Blue-billed Dowitcher
Lennoxan Sandpiper
Banded Turnstone
Yellow-winged Yellowlegs
Lennoxan Gull
Royal Crested Tern
Speckled Auklet
Lesser Murre
Osbornean Puffin
Flightless Didine
Other Vertebrates
Bulbous Blenny
Six-striped Sculpin
Ridgeback Iguana
Hognose Sea Turtle
Lennoxan Sea Otter
In addition to drawing the local wildlife, Pisking drew his pet gluttonous owl, Chemonides, a clamor that was found stowed away on the ship (and the little cottage that the seamen built so that he would stay off the ship), and several houses built by mammalian creatures called gunnels. Gunnels are known for building elaborate houses out of sticks, leaves, bark, etc. But in this case they had collected flotsam from a naval battle that had happened in that bay nearly two decades prior. Pisking was so delighted with their little metal houses that he drew several of them. In one of the drawings you can even see the inhabitant.
Gluttonous Owl
Clamor
Gunnel Houses
These illustrations of fictional animals were drawn using Stable Diffusion 2.1.
