Thursday, August 13, 2015

puffins, granite, blueberries: july adventures in maine

 Days in Maine this past July starting with some photos we took offshore Boothbay Harbor on a visit to Egg Island to see the puffins nesting.

 Puffin!



 Visiting with our friends Tii & Deb near Brooklin, Maine.

Lena and Hazel take to the high seas (except that they're tethered to shore)

 Maine sediments chock full of barnacles




 discarded urchin bodies in the island leaf litter - gull food?
 granite!
 blueberries!
 tidepools!

 summer blossoms
 goofing!
 nerding!
photo of a baby mussel photographed through the eye piece of Tii's micrscope. Lighter colored material on the top is the larval shell of this little buddy.

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