Just when we thought we were so tough, the way we stood up and roared at winter by surviving living aboard in Boston, along comes a gaggle of geese. Nothing like a fluffy yellow gosling to make us go gaga.
Apparently we’re just big softies after all. Even over-protective gander daddies let their babies get up close and personal with us.
Goslings are just too cute.
In the spirit of Marie Antoinette, this year I let Dad dig his own while I watched from above. Not really, after a few minutes the guilt got to me and I joined him. Besides, I wanted to keep a few for dinner.Eventually almost everybody got their hands in the muck.A few years ago, when…
Usefulness depends on your perspective – a lesson from Useless Bay When Captain Vancouver and his crew scrawled the words Useless Bay across their map, the name made good sense to them. For a ship the size of Discovery, this wide, shallow bay with a sand bottom provided nothing – no place to land and get to…
No, it’s not a new reality show for body builders, it’s an ongoing study of shellfish health. In fact Mussel Watch is part of the National Status and Trends Program of NOAA and, “the longest running contaminant monitoring program in US coastal waters and has been tracking contaminants in bivalves since 1986. However, due to…
It’s winter, not the high season for northern beaches. But the winter beach is beautiful and interesting. The slope is steeper, the colors are different. The sharp wind wakes you up. The high tides crashing waves, and steady breezes of winter move more than grains of sand and your whipping hair around. They also move…
It’s been hard to get out to /on the water lately. Busy days, early sunsets and freezing temperatures have conspired to keep me inside the office, my car, various shops and the house. But I have been keeping track of the sunrises over the last few days. Whether colorful or not, they’ve been stunning.This morning…
Once each year, volunteers deploy onto thirty-five Island County beaches for the annual Intertidal Monitoring. Yesterday was the day for the beach I help on. The monitoring program is 14 years old. It originally sprang from concerns publicized after the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Before I go on, I have to say that instituting the…
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Well, I have to admit, it’s pretty hard to top goslings. They are as cute as it gets. Great photos, Nancy,