Sail Boats on St. Peter's Innlet (II)

© July '10   photo by smck

This photograph was taken about the same time as Sailboats on St. Peter's Inlet, 11 Mar '12 - but with a different lens setting - if you look closely you can see the sails in the distance are not as far westward as in the first posted scene.  I usually try to discard similar photos, but in this case I liked each picture equally well as they portend different emotions to the scene - both conveying that Cape Breton elusiveness of time and place.

Beach Grasses

© July '10   photo by smck

Rodney Mathews TreeBeard

© August '10   photo by smck

 

And there on Parker's land - where D.D. his father had grown up - I espied this dead spruce which easily could have been the inspiration for Rodney Mathew's posters of the 90s such as "TreeBeard"  from The Lord of the Rings and "Jabberwocky Tree". 

Estuary Nursery

© August '09   by smck

As we waded in the shallow waters of the channels leading to the estuary at the sea we could see numerous small darting shapes everywhere - Calum, quicker than I, captured several for my lens and then released them.  The percentage of these crustaceans that would make it to maturity is small but these guys would live another day. 

© August '09   by smck

© August '09   by smck

Cormorants Taking The Sun

© August '09   photo by smck

Cormorants, some with wings held aloft to dry, perch on their reef as we approach Michaud Point proper on our long pleasant hike from the Pt. Michaud beach.   We are close to the old wharf area but this day we stop here without exploring the point itself and retrace our steps (mainly because I am barefoot and really tender-footed).   Michaud point is somewhat 'T' shaped, a rounded islandly T-shape that completes the great hook of land that shelters the Pt. Michaud beach area from the sweeping Atlantic currents and thus countless years of sand deposition have taken place.  This makes for a relatively shallow depth to the waters enabling the sun to warm them nicely by summers end.