#opal-the-gem

[geologyin-blog]

Stunning opal find from Mintabie, South Australia!

Photo: South Australian Opal Traders

[montereybayaquarium]

Get ready to meet Opal! 🦦✨

After a month of training behind-the-scenes, our newest sea otter, Opal, makes her official debut on exhibit this week! Opal’s sparkly personality quickly shined through during her training. The team was impressed by her confidence and how quickly Opal bonded with her new raftmates Ivy, Ruby, and Selka. Our precious gems, Opal and Ruby, are especially close! ⤵️

"It has been an absolute joy working with Opal, getting to know her personality, and watching her learn so quickly,” shared Courtney Ribeiro-French, aquarium senior mammalogist. “Introducing her to new toys and enrichment items and seeing how inquisitive and playful she is with them has been one of the best parts of my day."

To help Opal adjust to the exhibit and get used to seeing our guests, live sea otter feedings have been canceled Tuesday, April 29, and Wednesday, April 30. The upper mezzanine level of the sea otter exhibit will be closed, but guests are welcome to observe the exhibit from the windows on the ground floor. We expect that Opal will be moving in and out of the exhibit area for a while as she gets used to her new home, so she will not be visible all the time.

If you can’t make it to Monterey Bay to meet Opal right away, you may be lucky enough to catch a glimpse of her on our Sea Otter Cam. The live broadcast from the exhibit will be paused intermittently so we can check in with Opal and make sure she stays comfortable in her new surroundings. 

Thank you for your patience and understanding as we welcome Opal to her new home! 💙

[dozydawn]

[brittle-doughie]

Essentially.

Look of Y/N Cookie goes to @/desperatelittledemon!

[leidensygdom]

Gem studies, part one! I decided to have gems for the Patreon tiers, which was both fitting for my tastes and also a great opportunity to do some studies. And I started out with Titanium Quartz, Opal and Emerald- not to scale, because otherwise that would be a massive opal-

You can check them out in full resolution over at Patreon, and I also have speedpaints for all three of them there! What's your fave of this set? >:3c

[gottastim]

blob_blobber on ig

[tasteslikezombie]

Giant Woman

[transparentfossil]

Black Opals

[toastedstims]

A sableye stimboard for anon!!!

💎☔️💎|☔️☔️|💎☔️💎

[geologyin-blog]

Dippin Dots? Nope! This is just the most candy looking Grape Agate i have ever seen! Excellent druzy, multi colored and minimal damage.

Photo Natalis Gems

[montereybayaquarium]

Welcome to the raft, Opal! ✨

We asked, and you answered. 

🗳️Thanks to nearly 30,000 of you who voted in our online poll, we’re otter-ly excited to introduce our newest southern sea otter, Opal. 

🦦Our team is already hard at work training Opal to join Ivy, Selka, and Ruby on exhibit. 

💙They describe Opal as smart, sassy, confident, and protective–an otter that watches out for her raft. 💎 We can hardly wait for you to meet this gem; stay tuned for updates on the timeline for her official debut!

In addition to enchanting visitors and showing off for the exhibit live cam, Opal has a big part to play in the conservation of her species. Opal may act as a surrogate mother to orphaned sea otter pups as part of our sea otter surrogacy program. Though Opal was deemed unreleasable by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service after she was rescued as a stranded pup, she may give young pups a second chance by teaching them the skills they need to survive in the wild, like grooming and foraging. 

Our work with sea otters has a real impact on their survival—and the vital coastal habitats they call home—as the two are inextricably linked. The sea otter is a keystone species, which means that the health of sea otters is a good indication of the health of other species and ecosystems nearby. 

By releasing their adoptive pups back into the wild, our sea otter surrogate moms help restore California’s treasured kelp forests, keeping them healthy and thriving!  Learn about the history of our Sea Otter Program and how protecting this beloved species has enormous environmental benefits for California’s coastal ecosystems.

[dozydawn]

dendritic andean opal

[mussavelvet]

Peach Diamond and her pearl 🍑🐚💎

And Fire opal🔥 (fusion between peach and her pearl)

She is the smallest diamond ever seen, she has the size of a lapis, but the strength of a real diamond, and her pearl, she is not defective, she is small because the diamonds wanted to give her a pearl proportional to her size(she has the size of a peridot).

Power

her power is similar to the white diamond's, only that she launches an arrow of light direct to an any gem, thus automatically their gemstones turns their original color into a color orange, nullifying their powers, without strength, without ability to glow or regenerate if they are physically damaged, can't summon a weapon, change shape or fuse, or It can also be the opposite, by turning the gemstone orange, it enhances all the abilities that the gem has, all this happens while the gemstones don't returns to their original colors.

Of course she has fire powers, like a ruby

Charge

She only has half of a planet that was destroyed, and she is in charge of creating and direct all the rubys

[littlealienproducts]

Top 6 Multi Color Opal Grillz w Rubies by LuxeGrillz

[gottastim]

koroit.opal.company on ig

[mysticalblizzardcolor]

Boulder opal from Australia