3/5: weeks each on Sable Island immersed in the isolation, landscape, ecology, and deep cultural history that the island holds, gaining incomparable insight and experiences to inform their artistic practice. Applications are welcome from artists in all disciplines. #sableislandnpr #parkscanada …

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4/4:… Photo Zoe Lucas. #sableislandnpr #parkscanada #sableislandnationalparkreserve #navalhistory #Maritimehistory
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3/3: … life history on Sable Island.
To support our work, please consider a donation, sableislandinstitute.org/about-sable....
And/or become a member, sableislandinstitute.org/about-sable....
Thanks!
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3/3: … than they are now.
Photo Zoe Lucas. #wildhorses #wildhorsesofSable #greayseals
#sableislandnpr #parkscanada #sableislandnationalparkreserve
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4/4:… themes of fragility, movement, & care that emerged through the Sable Island residency, & by a growing reflection on the responsibility we share to care for the places that sustain us.”
Photo Zoe Lucas. #SableIsland #sableislandnpr #parkscanada #sableislandnationalparkreserve

5/5: … by Pine Tree Pond West.”
See an earlier post about Rose, the pond, and music: bsky.app/profile/sabl...
Photo Zoe Lucas.
#sableislandnpr #parkscanada #sableislandnationalparkreserve
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Grey Seal Research Program, Winter, Sable Island - Paul LeBlanc, 2019 - Sable Island Institute Standing on this island of sand on a cold winter day, experiencing a riot of sensations in a place that stimulates all of one’s senses—sight, sound, touch, smell and taste—all at the same time.

4/4: …And an account of working in the colony: sableislandinstitute.org/grey-seal-re...
Photo Zoe Lucas.
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#sableislandnpr #parkscanada #sableislandnationalparkreserve

Sable Island Institute - Conserving Sable Island Sable Island Institute protects and conserves Sable Island's nature and culture through research, arts & design, and educational programs.

4/4:…For more about #SableIsland: sableislandinstitute.org
#research #fieldwork #researchlife #students #fieldcamp #researchstation #DalhousieUniversity #parkscanada #sableislandnpr #sableislandnationalparkreserve

6/6:… For an overall view of the station & the solar array, see the earlier post: bsky.app/profile/sabl...
For more about #ParksCanada ’s greening project, see: parks.canada.ca/pn-np/ns/sab...
#NorthAtlantic #bifacialsolarpanels #GoliathTech #sableislandnpr #sableislandnationalparkreserve

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4/4:… fuel drums, & equipment.
Drone photo provided by Guillaume Roy, GoliathTech.
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#NorthAtlantic #Atlanticcanada #solarpower #parkscanada #sableislandnpr #sableislandnationalparkreserve

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3/3: … supplies and news, or about picking cranberries and buggy rides, and always the weather, listening to the wind and watching the barometer.
Photos Zoe Lucas. #Maritimehistory #buriedinsand #sableislandnpr #parkscanada #sableislandnationalparkreserve
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3/5: …part of a workshop’s foundation, and the roses. #Maritimehistory #historicalartifacts #buriedinsand #sableislandnpr #parkscanada
#sableislandnationalparkreserve
Photo Zoe Lucas.
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2/2: ... As the drying sand fell away, the boat slid in parts to the base of the dune and onto the beach where, during storms, the fragments were scattered by waves washing over the area. Photo Zoe Lucas #graveyardoftheatlantic #buriedinsand #parkscanada #sableislandnpr
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3/3: … Photo Zoe Lucas
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#Shipwreck #sableislandnpr #sableislandnationalparkreserve

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4/4: … Photos Zoe Lucas.
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Grey Seal Research Program, Winter, Sable Island - Paul LeBlanc, 2019 - Sable Island Institute Standing on this island of sand on a cold winter day, experiencing a riot of sensations in a place that stimulates all of one’s senses—sight, sound, touch, smell and taste—all at the same time.

4/4: …For an account of working in Sable’s Grey Seal colony see: sableislandinstitute.org/grey-seal-re...
Photos Zoe Lucas.
#SableIsland #DFO #research #GreySeals #PuppingSeason #sealresearch
#sableislandnpr #parkscanada #sableislandnationalparkreserve

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2/2: … of floodwater on the south beach. The strip of land in the middle is an area of dry sand & berm – much wider than it looks, ~ 40m - between the far edge of the #floodwater & the ocean (the narrow blue line).
Photo Zoe Lucas. #sableislandnpr #parkscanada
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4/4: … Although there are other colour mutations – yellow, albino (“crystal”) & half-&-half – the blue seems most beautiful.
Photo Zoe Lucas. #sableislandnpr #parkscanada #sableislandnationalparkreserve
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Sable Island Institute - Conserving Sable Island Sable Island Institute protects and conserves Sable Island's nature and culture through research, arts & design, and educational programs.

2/2: …most of its colour & shine, & the balloon would have become just a large grubby sheet of plastic breaking apart in the environment.
Photo Zoe Lucas. #balloonpollution #stopballoonreleases #beacheddebris #beachedplastics 
#sableislandnpr #parkscanada
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5/5: …To support our work, please consider a donation, sableislandinstitute.org/about-sable....
And/or become a member, sableislandinstitute.org/about-sable....
Thank you!
#washedashore #buriedinsand #plasticpollution #balloonpollution
#sableislandnpr #parkscanada #sableislandnationalparkreserve

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5/5: …
Photos Gerry Forbes & Zoe Lucas.
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#sableislandnationalparkreserve #sableislandnpr #parkscanada

Fall Colours on Sable Island, September-October 2018 - Sable Island Institute During autumn, the island’s landscape becomes a tapestry of silvery-white, pale yellow, tan, amber, buffy, sienna, orange, red and purple, with the bright greens of juniper and crowberry woven through...

4/4: … #sableislandnpr #parkscanada #sableislandnationalparkreserve
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2/2: … neck, chest. Then, for 5 minutes he was focussed, leaning onto the tip of a branch stump, & rubbing back & forth over a spot about 15 cm long. His companion, a mare, continued her amble along the shoreline nibbling beach grass & bits of seaweed.
Photo Zoe Lucas. #sableislandnpr #parkscanada

Sid Forward and Family on Sable Island, 1961-1963 - Sable Island Institute In the early 1960s my father, Sid Forward, was employed as an electrician on Sable Island. He was responsible for maintaining the lights and diesel power station. I celebrated my 4th birthday on the i...

4/5: …maintaining the lights & diesel power station at West Light. For a wonderful account of life on the island >60 years ago, see sableislandinstitute.org/sid-forward-... #lightkeeper #sableislandnpr #parkscanada …

Redirecting...

3/3:… This is what is looked like in early November: www.facebook.com/share/v/1Jnf...
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4/4: … the freshwater ponds near West Light.
The second photo shows horses gathered in the West Spit waterhole area. #sableislandnpr #parkscanada
Photos Zoe Lucas.
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2/2: …pick up & there was barely a ripple on surface of the south beach floodwater.
This area of beach is west of the West Light area, & the #lighttower is just barely visible, as slim as a needle, on the distant dune line.
Photo Zoe Lucas. #sableislandnpr #parkscanada
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4/4: … with the response of the rusty, sandblasted metal, storm waves washed over the berm & the carrier was surrounded by ocean floodwater on the south beach.
Photos Zoe Lucas. #rosemorrisonmusic #SableIsland #floodedbeach
#sableislandnpr #parkscanada
#sableislandnationalparkreserve

1/4🧵: Sable Island Harbour Seal. 🌎🌿 #SableIslandnpr #NorthAtlantic
#beachsurvey #HarbourSeals
Yesterday, the survey was paused for a lone Harbour seal who had been snoozing about 30 m away from the sea's edge. (The water in the background is an area of shallow flooding from the last storm.) …