Barnacles can attach themselves to various watercraft including kayaks.
Barnacles are able to stick to rocks because they secrete and adhesive substance. This allows them to also stick to any and everything that they are able to.
Barnacles stick to the boat hull and grow creating a sort of skin over the hull. This in turn slows boat by taking away smoothness of hull and adding weight. Barnacles get knocked off and fall off , which pulls outer hull coating off allowing rot to get in.
kayak
Barnacles are crustaceans( a type of arthropods)
commensalism
no, a kayak is a kayak NOT a boat
Yes, "as rough as the barnacles" is a simile. It compares the roughness of something to the rough texture of barnacles using the word "as."
It is a kayak.
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Barnacles are shellfish that cling to rocks or ships hulls.
Barnacles live only in salt water.
There are more than 1,000 different species of barnacles.