💦 #sassyscallop

I saw four octopuses on Tuesday. Here is one of them: #pnw #intertidal #octopusrubescens

Pose. #pnw #intertidal #janolusfuscus

It’s extreme negative low tide time so, like, gird them loinz. #pnw #lowtide #intertidal

Holding hands with a critically endangered sunflower star.

🌻 #pnw #intertidal #pycnopodiahelianthoides

Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn #pnw #seastar #intertidal

sup chat 💬 #moss #snow

🫣🫢🤭 #pnw #trillium #centralcascadea

Fairy Puke lichen and some moss on the new trail up to Mailbox Peak.

And here’s some more fairy puke. #fairypuke

The mail has been checked. #pnw #mailboxpeak #centralcascades

👉🙂‍↔️ #intertidal #kelpcrab

#pnw #frühling #centralcascades

We live in a beautiful state, a green place. #pnw #centralcascades

This dorid was hanging from a rock by a slender string of slime. I took pity on them, moistened them up in some water, snapped a quick pic, and them to one of the many dorid orgies. Don't remove them from their rocks! If you pry, they may die!

Lusty dorids doing lusty things. 🥚 #frühling #Onchidorisbilamellata

🪹 🌞 #iykyk

🪨 💧 #listen #blanchard #chuckanut

Colloquially known as Fairy Puke 🧚 🤮 #lichen #fairypuke #peppermintdrop #Icmadolphilaericetorum

In das Bad natürlich. I think she’s a Peppermint Drop Lichen. 🍬 #pnw #lichen #centralcascades

It is awful here, please stay away. #ew #ugh #awful #terrible

Hiker Headlines: Wind damage, North Cascades permits, WTA's op-ed on Forest Service and Parks firings The early access lottery for North Cascades backcountry permits opens on March 3 — and other early access lotteries are closing soon. Big winds hit Washington earlier this week, so be careful of falle...

The North Cascades permit lottery opens soon, and others are closing. Stay up to date on trails impacted by this weeks windstorm. Plus, resources on what you can do for public lands in the face of massive firings for land managers.

For more details read this weeks Hiker Headlines:

1 hour sound of Starling sound YouTube video by Bird sounds

Loop her for an excellent auditory facsimile of my home sounds. #starling
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsDu...

Same, but replace robins with starlings! I love those loudmouths.

wolfs milk slime mold on the kendall katwalk trail

In das Bad again, here is actual Wolfs Milk this go around. 🤞🥛 #wolfsmilk #slimemold #Lycogalaepidendrum #kendallkatwalk

pik-a-boo 🪨 #pika #meep #centralcascades

Recent Seattle Aquarium layoffs include devastating cuts to the Beach Naturalist program that has nurtured community engagement with the Salish Sea for 25 years.

There is a board meeting February 26th. Send comments in support of the satff & program to publiccomment@seattleaquarium.org

🧪🦑 #SciComm

2 kalt 4 forest dissociation, so back 2 das Bad and this Midsummer 🌙 🐌 #lewismoonsnail #Neveritalewisi

🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️ #Big4 #NorthCascades

Thank you so much for your generosity of knowledge! I've definitely seen Wolfs Milk out here in the past (Central Cascades) and made an assumption when it came to the lichen.

🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️ #Big4

I am sorry to expose you to this wretched part of the world. #Big4