2021 Odyssey – Day 16 – Pamaquid (spelling?) Point & Puffin Island, Maine

Posted on July 26, 2021 by Jim Reed
Great Aunt & Great Nephew
Ladies of Pemaquid
Boudin within Metamorphics
Nice Gneiss Folding
Drag Folds
Augen Gneiss
Enlightening

Rolled Metasediments
The guy at the museum told us that this is the normal lobster size. The runts are what people eat while the monsters are thrown back to produce eggs.
Lighthouse Lens
Forgot the name of this forgettable English fort which had an ignoble history of being easily captured.by the French – twice.
Dock Pier
Judeman Photographer
The Evil Nemesis Sisters
Most excellent Audubon ornithologists.
Puffin
Unlike other seabirds, cormorant feathers aren’t waterproof so they need to dry them off, but this is what allows them to dive so well.
Puffins swim with their wings – not their feet, diving up to 200′ in search of food.
Out-of-focus puffin preparing to fly.
Sunset from Egg Island.
B2 Stealth Bomber
Enhanced Sunset
Perfect rainbow after minor squall.
Back into the harbor.
The bands around the claws serve two purposes; (1) the obvious one, and (2) they’re cannibals. No kidding.

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1 Response to 2021 Odyssey – Day 16 – Pamaquid (spelling?) Point & Puffin Island, Maine

  1. Knox's avatar Knox says:
    July 29, 2021 at 2:21 am

    how may lobster eggs does it take to make an omelet? must be in the thousands.

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