Archive for July 19th, 2018
Ovens Natural Park
On June 4th, after Blue Rocks had only two hours earlier finished providing my second sustained encounter with Nova Scotia’s seacoast, Ovens Natural Park gave me a chance to spend two more hours engaging with the coast.
Below is a closer view of that visually yummy rockweed (probably Fucus vesiculosus, according to staff member Ana):
Oh, those upturned rock layers:
And look at this seaweed on what I take to be granite or something akin to granite:
Imagine replacing the symbol in “I ❤ You” with a closeup of this seaweed. Okay, so maybe the only person who’d ever want to do that is a phycologist or somebody cozying up to one.
© 2018 Steven Schwartzman