The weekend in review

Holy cats... SUN! - Bandon, OR




Nereocystis luetkeanna


Various highlights- Anthropleura elegantissima, Semibalanus cariosus, Balanus glandula, Mytilus californiaus, and oodles of tinnie tiny Littorina sp. Did you know that barnacles boast a world record? Yep, gets the high school boys looking at their quadrats very very closely.


Handmade basket weave MAN hat - CurtiP's christmas present :)


Lost?


Specialized alga that are tolerant of consistent sand scouring






Along with washing the dishes I arrived home to find these! We did a little lesson on trimming stems & leaves and choosing the proper sized vessel.


Monday morning post puff pancake special

a weekend at the coast

One of the few last weekends curtip got to come out to the coast which also happened to be the US vs. Ghana game (super depressing right??). So after a few beers at the...uh... local "pub" a picnic at the beach was in order as it was a rare 80 degree day. We also partook in hiking along the coast trails, beach beer, a visit to the gardens, an early morning trip to tidepool, french toast, etc. etc. Awesomeness indeed.



Sitka spruce trees are the best


Early morning South Cove

Kelp for me

Limpet for Annie (by the way, we found a number of your friends, certainly not all of them were there though )

Sunflower star because they are pretty neat (and more kelp for me)

Urchins!

Tidepooling in chacos. no big deal.

Self portrait


We found a massive amount of squid eggs washed up on the beach, potentially rumored to be Humboldt squid? but that's debatable.

It was mysterious, but pretty cool

And the perfect opportunity to creep on a certain someone whilst on the phone.

bits & pieces

intensively delicious salad mostly from the garden & yes those are home grown/pickled beets




my new pet! she has the prettiest web.


Buddy!

love this guy

a rare day in charleston

A limpet complete with a stylish cape of algae

This years barnacle recruits

What kind of day would it be without this?



My lovely mother

Some coralline algae and seagrass


Sandstone at day


Obviously not found in tidepools


shore acres flora

Hot cocoa roses

Unidentified awesomeness

10 more days? really?

Almost graduating? strange... Here's what I've been up to the last couple of weeks.

The garden is full...



...and so are our vases.


The last quantitative field ecology trip brought me back to the sea over Memorial weekend.