Another absolutely gorgeous summer day in Maine, and I was back at College of the Atlantic. In town it was humid and sticky, but on the beach the sun was pleasantly warm and the breeze was pleasantly cool, and a hazy fog drifted out from the Porcupines but never quite reached us.
I shared the beach with a group of Field Studies kids. They caught a lot of crabs, which I duly admired in between clambering over rocky outcrops to investigate tidepools. Most were European Green Crabs (like the one in the photo) which have become a real problem in our area, driving out the indigenous species.
More sea glass today,
and more striped rocks,
and an insect swimming pool! I don’t know yet what these are, but don’t worry, they weren’t drowning, just swimming around.
