ULOG #9 - Photo Shoot - An Estuary, Some Cows and Some Bulls
An Estuary, Some Cows and Some Bulls
For most of the past week it's been cloudy, rainy and just plain dismal! Today arrived with sunshine and the forecast for the rest of the day was more of the same! For me there's no better way to recharge my batteries and get me out of my funk than going on a photo shoot!
Back in my younger days I used to go oystering in the tidal mud flats along the shore of Great Bay in Stratham, New Hampshire. In those days you could drag a bushel basket though the mud at low tide and hand pick the oysters from the shallow water. The daily limit was a full bushel! That's a lot of oysters to shuck!
Since those days the government has established The Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve at the location where I used to go oystering. That was my destination for today's shoot.
The reserve houses a visitor's center. The staff is friendly and the exhibits are awesome.
The flower garden
There's a wonderful flower garden surrounding the center.
The nature trail
Beginning at the Welcome Center is a well manicured trail
The boardwalk starts a little way into the walk
The boardwalk rounds the corner toward the salt marsh and a view of the bay
A peek of the water through the trees
Great Bay from the trail
These are the mud flats where I used to go oystering
The salt marsh
Heading away from the marsh and into the woods
A dragonfly couple enjoying insectual bliss!
After the act
The trail branches off into the woods
Some shrooms
Ghost plant
If it wasn't for @traciyork's post about these plants a while back, I would have had no idea about what they are. I would have thought they were just some kind of mushroom. I was under attack by swarming mosquitoes while I was attempting to get a good shot of these. That's why it's a little out of focus.
Cows and Bulls on the way home
The girls
The boys
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Gorgerous shots of flowers and that forest trail look so inviting.
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So many amazing pictures, Roger! And so many familiar looking shots - we used to have a weekly homeschooling group that met at the Seacoast Science Center (a half hour from Great Bay) and I'd swear it was the same location.
However, I do know those exactly where those cows & bulls are, and I'm jealous you got a shot. I've been driving past them for almost six years now, and I never seem to have my camera with me when I have time to pull over...LOL!
Thanks for taking us along on your visit, and braving the mosquitoes so we don't have to. 😊
They told me that they have a lot of programs for kids at the center. They have a touchy feely aquarium there where the kids can hold horseshoe crabs, clams and things. There's a teepee in the woods with benches inside, that they must use as well. It was too buggy for me to do any exploring.
The cows weren't as close to the road as I would have liked, but they still looked cool all bunched up relaxing under the tree.
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Yes, they do, which is one of the reasons why it was a perfect spot to host homeschoolers. In fact (after I ask our three kidlets for permission of course) I might just do a Throwback Thursday kind of post with pictures from our days there. Thanks for the inspiration!
Oh Wow! That would be great!
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