Category: Environment

Toodles, a common octopus, will make his public debut at the Save the Bay aquarium this winter.

Save the Bay Aquarium Opens for Winter Season

Environment

9/27/2012 - The Save The Bay Aquarium opens for the winter season just in time for Columbus Day Weekend. Toodles, a common octopus, will make his official public debut at the aquarium, located on Memorial Drive at Easton Beach in Newport. Common octopus are among the smartest inverbrates on the planet, occupying… SEE MORE

A perfect September day in Bucks harbor.

Autumn and I on Cape Rosier: A Match Made in Heaven

9/25/2012 - A dutiful and persistent traveler of the Maine coast, I am sometimes asked what is the most beautiful place I have seen on my travels. I often struggle, for their are far too many beautiful places to name just one. There are exceptions, however, locations which stand above the rest.… SEE MORE

My Dear Summer in Maine, I Bid Thee Farewell

9/21/2012 - It is always bittersweet when the summer season passes on the coast of Maine. Fall is such a beautiful time of year, and the surrounding hush that accompanies it is more than welcome, yet I always seem to bemoan the loss of balmy breezes and long days of light. The… SEE MORE

The NJ Maritime Maritime Museum is just one of many great sights to take in during a stop in Beach Haven, New Jersey.

Beach Haven Offers Snowbirds a Historic Stop

9/21/2012 - Labor Day is behind us. Summer crowds are thinning out, but boat traffic southward and fishing is heating up. A good place in New Jersey to stop at is Beach Haven, a small town near the southern end of Long Beach Island. Here you’ll find two excellent marinas within walking… SEE MORE

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The Marine Animal Entanglement Response team at the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies works to free a humpback whale.

Record Week of Rescues for Provincetown Team

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9/20/2012 - This week the Marine Animal Entanglement Response team at the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies successfully freed six individual animals belonging to endangered populations, including two humpback whales and three leatherback turtles, from life-threatening entanglements in the waters between Cape Cod and New Hampshire. On Sunday, a commercial fisherman reported… SEE MORE

The original clam cake bag, courtesy of John Howell.

SBA Accepts Offer for Future Park at Rocky Point

9/20/2012 - On Sept. 17, the U.S. Small Business Administration announced it has accepted the State of Rhode Island's offer to purchase 80+ acres of the Rocky Point property in Warwick. Some 40 acres have already been preserved along the coastline. The remaining acreage will be the future home of a state… SEE MORE

Without the noise of engines, the sounds of the natural world and noise of oar through water is almost deafening.

A Perfect Sunset Unfolds on the Maine Coast

9/17/2012 - Every now and then, the stars align and a perfect sunset unfolds. This one, just off the headquarters of WoodenBoat near Center Harbor was so vast, we thought we could row inside it. Then it seemed to bleed into the water around us and with one last stir of an… SEE MORE

New Arrivals at Petit Manan Point

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9/15/2012 - The north winds that we have been anticipating indeed arrived, and with them a moderate influx of migrating birds to our area. The American Goldfinch is a common backyard bird, and if you’ve kept feeders you’ve likely had some good views of these beautiful birds. This male is currently molting… SEE MORE

Sometimes there are invasive non-living things in tide pools.

Coastal Ponderings: Do Tide Pools Have To-Do Lists?

9/12/2012 - Living on a small farm, I am plagued with endless to-do lists. As I try to recall the demand of spring projects, somehow the fall seems even more crammed with immediate needs and wants. Of course the needs of putting up firewood, storm windows, garden harvesting, storing winter hay, and… SEE MORE

Itching to get out one more time before winter comes, a wooden beauty rests on the docks of Great Cranberry Island.

Basking in the Splendor of September on the Maine Coast

9/11/2012 - I am prone to hyperbole, but I have to admit, when the month of September arrives on the Maine coast, a certain poignant smell — a mixture of spruce fir, ocean, and wild flowers — pervades the landscape and seems to take my breath away. It is the smell of… SEE MORE