The full moon this week led to some seriously high tides, creating mirror-like expanses reflecting the newly barren trees and dusty colored marsh grasses. This is a lovely late fall scene. On the flipside, when all that water goes out, there is a great swath of mud that is uncovered. And here in Brunswick, we […]

This Thanksgiving week, when most people are fixated on turkey, there is another holiday that is easy to miss, and it’s an international one that celebrates the sea rather than the land. World Fisheries Day was Tuesday, Nov. 21, and has been happening in some form for the last 26 years. According to NOAA Fisheries, […]

Last week’s column I wrote it before the tragic events in Lewiston. That afternoon, in an effort to find a sense of calm and peace amidst a lot of fear and unknowns, I went to the water. The continuity of the water’s surface, the opening of the sky above, and the steadiness of the wildlife […]

Floating is a magical thing. That’s what I wrote in my column last week after watching ducks effortlessly float on top of the surface of the waves and thinking of how many organisms in or on the ocean depends on their ability to sink or float to survive. I started to get into humans’ ability […]

After the wet weather we had at the end of the summer, I was impressed by the variety of mushrooms that have appeared: little puffballs, broad parasols and shaggy lion’s manes popped up around tree roots. Mushrooms may seem to have nothing to do with the ocean — except maybe the last one since there […]