In May of 2015 I was five months into the Coast Walk and had just started to pay attention to the gulls. When I’m curious about something, I generally broadcast it far and wide as I have a lot…
Coast Walk 17: Mouth of Little Harbor Brook, May 18, 2017 Old maps label this “Little Harbor” but today it is only known as the mouth of Little Harbor Brook. Left to right, top to bottom: Row 1: Blue…
The Great Harbor Maritime Museum in Northeast Harbor has a model of the J.T.Morse, which ran daily circuits to the MDI resort communities from 1903 to 1933.
Coast Walk 17: Bracy Cove to Roberts Point, May 17, 2017 From top to bottom, left to right: Row 1: Razor Clam (Ensis directus), lobster trap rope, Horse Mussel (Modiolus modiolus), Common Slipper Shell (Crepidula fornicata) Row 2: pink granite…
Sandworm (Nereis virens or Alitta virens) The Coast Walk takes me to some unexpected places. This week I got invited to an Intertidal Stakeholders meeting at Schoodic – clammers, wormers, seaweed harvesters, biologists from a couple of colleges, a shellfish…
So I was poking around in the Maine Room of the Jesup Library, which is exactly what it sounds like – a tiny room off to one side of the main room in which they keep all the books about…
Years and years ago – before I became a photographer, before I started either the Beachcombing series or the Coast Walk, even before I got curious about how the stripes get into beach stones – I spent a lot of…
Coast Walk 15: Seal Harbor Beach to Bracy Cove, October 20, 2016 From top to bottom, left to right: Row 1: Blue Mussel (Mytilus edulis), sea glass, Slipper Shell (Crepidula fornicata), beach stone. Row 2: crab claw, Common Periwinkle…
Coast Walk 14: Seal Harbor Beach, December 21, 2015 Left to right, top to bottom: Row 1: Coke bottle sea glass, Blue Mussel (Mytilus edulis), Sand Dollar (Echinarachnius parma), paper scrap, lobster claw band, aluminum can base Row 2: Sand…
Dec. 6, 2016: 8:50-10am. 28ºF (-2ºC), sunny with scattered cumulus clouds and a sharp wind off Little Long Pond. Flock of 17 Buffleheads (Bucephala albeola), 6 much larger ducks (probably Black Ducks, Anas rubripes, since they had yellow bills), 2…
