Joe, I have never been so up close & intimate with a banana slug! Your tattooing skills are almost as superb as your skill at photography. And to think, I used to believe that Oregon had a strange mascot with their DUCKS. "Go Slugs" has a slightly different resonance than "Go Ducks." I will have to pass this slug picture on to a cousin who graduated from UC-Santa Cruz in biology. Hey, and Kathy Abelson received her physics degree from UC-Santa Cruz. There's a possible commercial outlet for your photo: t-shirts, key chains, anyone? -- Gail from Sunnyvale