Seabeaning Among Marine Debris At Padre Island National Seashore

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Seabeaning Among Marine Debris At Padre Island National Seashore

The first time that I went seabeaning, I triumphantly scooped up what looked like a shrivelled brain from a national seashore that was strewn with plastic trash. I turned the fist-sized oddity over in my hands, admiring how the deep grooves on its bumpy brown surface created brain-like patterns.That brain bean — also known as brainfruit, brain seed, monkey’s brain or Donovan’s brain — was neither brain nor bean but a well-traveled and wizened fr…