For your amusement and edification, may I present Coast Walk 3: Cromwell Harbor to Compass Harbor, Bar Harbor, Maine; January 12, 2015. Please forgive the little pun that snuck in there, I couldn’t resist. Top to bottom, left to…
May 13, 2015: 12:30-3:15pm, low tide at 1:08pm, 63ºF, sunny, strong wind and heavy surf. Cold in the wind, warm out of it. 10 eiders (5 male, 5 female), 2 possible laughing gulls, several Herring Gulls, 1 crow, 1 dead…
May 6, 2015: 6-11:30am, forgot to note temperature, probably in the low 60s when we started, might have been 70ºF by the end of the walk. 1 Red Squirrel, 2 Herring Gulls, 1 Purple Sandpiper, flock of 10 Guillemots, 1…
May 3, 2015: 5:30-6:30pm, about 53ºF, sunny and very windy. Cold in the shadows – my fingers got numb! Low tide at 5:30. Not much wildlife: 3 or 4 Herring Gulls. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines ‘sand’ as, “a loose granular…
So many interesting discoveries this past week, I’m not even sure where to begin. Life cycle of barnacles, photos of the old estate, hiking adventures, a movie filmed here in 1917, a wrecked schooner, sudden change in the geology: birds,…
Notes: April 25, 2015, 37ºF, 9:30-11:45am, a bit of wind, sun and clouds at start but became overcast. Not as much wildlife: one bald eagle getting hassled by a gull, a wounded deer, and a small flock of dark birds…
Notes: April 22, 2015, 7:15-9:30am, low tide at 8:15. 49ºF, sunny. Walker: Nicole Ouellette of Breaking Even Communications and Anchorspace, Bar Harbor Before I say anything else about today’s adventure, I have to give you a couple of warnings. One: Anemone…
April 20: 34 degrees, sunny, 49º by the time I finished. Not warm, but pleasant. Suddenly I’m surrounded by wildlife: 2 Downy Woodpeckers (Picoides pubescens), 1 Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus), a white-tailed deer, a raccoon, 4 male Common Eider and…
Remember Coast Walk 2 – wandering along the Shore Path? This is the still life of objects I found along the way. It went a lot faster than the one for the first walk because I didn’t have any…
