Life on the East Coast

Occasionally I like to stop and look closely at bugs or plants or wildlife. Knitting as a hobby has not only given me something to do with my hands while watching tv, but has also taught me an appreciation for the details and patterns in small things. Living close to the ocean has opened up a new set of interesting things for me to look at.
The pictures below were taken at Prim Point (somewhere near Digby, "scallop capital of the world") on Labour Day weekend. You can click on any picture to make it bigger.

green frothy stuff

fall colours in a tide pool

there are so many varieties of seaweed in Nova Scotia. This stuff has little green balls that look like little dimpled olives---according to resident "expert" Richard, they are air sacs that help the seaweed float vertically when underwater

find the crab!

it almost looks like the rocks are rusting, but it's some sort of orange algae

looking down, down, down into a crevasse in the rocks---clearly it is low tide, and you can see the green carpet of seaweed that is only underwater during high tide