1. Shoup Bay Trail, July 1st, 2008, 1-3:30 pm
2. Winds light and variable, sunny, high 60s.
3. Terraine- thin, winding, woodsy trail, thick vegetation, opening out into small meadows, then into expansive peat marsh, leading to sandy shore inlet.
4. Plants identified: alder, dandelions, red elder, willows, stinging nettle, devil's club, ferns, horsetails, salmonberry, chocolate lily (pictured),starflowers, wild celery, nagoonberry, valerian, wild geraniums, yellow paintbrush, false hellabore, cow parsnip, shooting star, beach pea, irises, dwarf dogwood, daisies, rose avens, some type of chickweed, beach greens, rockweed, and witches hair seaweed, sedge grass, peat.
5. Animals identified: mosquito, an orange slug, humans, white butterfly, bees, caterpillar, gulls, swallow, crows or ravens, muscle shell, clam shell, barnacles, the leg of a crab, bear scat, and the singing of many small birds, including a hummingbird, red mites, sand worms, a tiny shrimp-like creature.
2. Winds light and variable, sunny, high 60s.
3. Terraine- thin, winding, woodsy trail, thick vegetation, opening out into small meadows, then into expansive peat marsh, leading to sandy shore inlet.
4. Plants identified: alder, dandelions, red elder, willows, stinging nettle, devil's club, ferns, horsetails, salmonberry, chocolate lily (pictured),starflowers, wild celery, nagoonberry, valerian, wild geraniums, yellow paintbrush, false hellabore, cow parsnip, shooting star, beach pea, irises, dwarf dogwood, daisies, rose avens, some type of chickweed, beach greens, rockweed, and witches hair seaweed, sedge grass, peat.
5. Animals identified: mosquito, an orange slug, humans, white butterfly, bees, caterpillar, gulls, swallow, crows or ravens, muscle shell, clam shell, barnacles, the leg of a crab, bear scat, and the singing of many small birds, including a hummingbird, red mites, sand worms, a tiny shrimp-like creature.
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