May 14, 2009: Appendage from the Deep

Cousin Jesse pulled this thing up with his shrimp pot yesterday during the last day of the recreational shrimp season. It's about 5 feet long, and is rigid at the base and flexible at the top, kind of like a bull whip. It's slimy. It's not vegetable, and it's not man-made, and we have absolutely no idea what it is.