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--Apple-Mail=_ACCFA89B-2868-48BE-B41A-E5C2746E80F6 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Begin forwarded message: > From: Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> > Subject: [ValleyNature] beach fleas, beach flowers, Scots' Bay > Date: August 31, 2014 at 4:21:56 PM ADT > To: Nature BNS <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca> >=20 > AUG. 31, 2014 - This afternoon, midway through the Labour Day weekend, = Pat & I drove to Scots=92 Bay to do a beach walk and to look for the = rumoured new eatery there. The new cafe/convenience store is called The = Haze [Google www.hazerestaurant ] and is on the bay side of the road a = bit south of the road to the beach. >=20 > We walked the beach and gathered loads of washed-up trash (ropes, = plastic, etc.). Under the cast-up seaweed, fresh and not so fresh, were = oodles of small =93beach fleas=94, which are really = crustaceans/amphipods that are nearly terrestrial, scavengers on organic = stuff, and super jumpers, active mostly at night. On the upper beach = were lots of flowering plants of sea rocket (Cakile), beach pea, and sow = thistle? >=20 > Pat spotted a few small flocks of shorebirds? and at least one head of = a probable seal, but I saw none of these. >=20 > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. >=20 > _______________________________________________ > Nature mailing list > Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca > = http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/nature_blomidonnaturalists.= ca --Apple-Mail=_ACCFA89B-2868-48BE-B41A-E5C2746E80F6 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 <html><head><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html = charset=3Dwindows-1252"></head><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; = -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: = after-white-space;"><br><div style=3D""><br><div>Begin forwarded = message:</div><br class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote = type=3D"cite"><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">Jim Wolford <<a = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a>><br><= /span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>[ValleyNature] = beach fleas, beach flowers, Scots' Bay</b><br></span></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px;"><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, = 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">August 31, 2014 at 4:21:56 PM = ADT<br></span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">Nature BNS <<a = href=3D"mailto:nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca">nature@blomidonnaturalists.c= a</a>><br></span></div><br><div><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" = content=3D"text/html charset=3Dwindows-1252"><div style=3D"word-wrap: = break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: = after-white-space;"><div style=3D"margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; = font-family: Arial;"><b>AUG. 31, 2014</b> - This afternoon, midway = through the Labour Day weekend, Pat & I drove <b>to Scots=92 Bay</b> = to do a beach walk and to look for the rumoured new eatery there. = The new cafe/convenience store is called <b>The Haze</b> [Google = www.hazerestaurant ] and is on the bay side of the road a bit south of = the road to the beach.</div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; = font-family: Arial; min-height: 15px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: = 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial;">We walked <b>the beach</b> = and <b>gathered loads of washed-up trash</b> (ropes, plastic, = etc.). Under the cast-up seaweed, fresh and not so fresh, were = oodles of small <b>=93beach fleas=94</b>, which are really = crustaceans/amphipods that are nearly terrestrial, scavengers on organic = stuff, and super jumpers, active mostly at night. On the upper = beach were lots of flowering plants of <b>sea rocket = (</b><i>Cakile</i><b>), beach pea, and sow thistle?</b></div><div = style=3D"margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; min-height: = 15px;"><b></b><br></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; = font-family: Arial;">Pat spotted a few small flocks of = <b>shorebirds?</b> and at least one head of a probable <b>seal</b>, but = I saw none of these.</div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; = font-family: Arial;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; font-size: = 13px; font-family: Arial;">Cheers from Jim in = Wolfville.</div><div><br></div></div>_____________________________________= __________<br>Nature mailing list<br><a = href=3D"mailto:Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca">Nature@blomidonnaturalists.c= a</a><br>http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/nature_blomidonnat= uralists.ca<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>= --Apple-Mail=_ACCFA89B-2868-48BE-B41A-E5C2746E80F6--
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