Weird creature measured 6ft long

A mysterious creature horrified
holidaymakers after it washed up on a beach on the Gower Peninsula in
Wales. The writhing mass of tentacles, which measured at least 6ft from
end to end. The barnacles – long writhing stalks or pendulates, tipped
with shells – are normally found deep below the waves, but were washed
up clinging to a log. This barnacle may look like a mollusc but it is in
fact a crustacean related to shrimps, lobsters and crabs. The goose
barnacle or percebe thrives at the ocean’s foamy edge. Slammed by
boiling sea waves, laved in saline by constant saltwater surf, the
percebe thrives clinging to wave-lashed crags of the sea, to coastal
rocks in narrow inlets called ‘surge channels’ up which the ocean
thrusts oxygen-rich waves tumbling and roiling to wash over the barnacle
colonies, thus providing tiny planktonic food to be caught by the
winnowing fan-like legs poking out and up from the barnacle. Barnacles
attach themselves to rocks by their “heads” and feed by means of their
feathery “legs.”