May 20 - 26
Finally had a nice day when another host, Steve, was available to go to the aquarium with us.
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| Steve was so excited to be there |
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| Ocean plastic trash art - beautiful but tragic |
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| Sea Lion training and feeding |
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| Sea otter - no longer found on the Oregon coast because they were over hunted |
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Harbor seal training and feeding
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| Tufted puffins, of which there are none at Yaquina Head (said a million times to our visitors) |
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| Pigeon guillmont |
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| Common murres |
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| Spotted morays |
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| I found Nemo! |
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| Red sea anemone seen from the backside |
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| More plastic sea trash art |
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| Came across this funky area as we left the aquarium |
Back at work I watched a practice cliff rescue by the local fire department. We've seen these practiced with dummies but this one used a living firefighter. She was one brave soul because this is just before the rescuer caught the gurney on a rock lip and turned her upside down.
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| That's me in the big hat pointing out some tidepool find to a visitor |
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| a huge lemon nudibranch |
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| Agate beach view from my favorite after-work chilling site |
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| An inclusion in the basalt flow, possibly plagioclase feldspar |
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| Roughest waves I've seen so far on Cobble Beach |
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| Cormorants beginning to nest |
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| The highest tide we've seen on Cobble Beach - and no, we don't move the rocks around on the beach, mother nature needs no help |
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