Bold Coast Trail - Cutler, ME - Aug 3-4, 2009

[The Unstrung Harp]

Full report here...
Trek For Peace

The reader's digest version:

Hike out, experience sunset, experience mosquito fiesta, camp in complete solitude RIGHT on the wily shoreline of Maine, experience moon, experience sunrise, experience mosquito deathwish, participate in mosquito slaughter, hike out.

A taste....

 

[Jay H]

More fantastic photos UH. Don't know why the water would be yellow or gold, but could be certain tannins in the trees that the water flows through, or just the clear water showing what's behind/under it. Just a guess.

I can I.D. some of those flowers...

The one with the blackish berries with stem below:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clintonia

The purple one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupin

type of Blue Bell(?) :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Bluebell

Jay

 

[The Unstrung Harp]

Thanks Jay! Clintonia looks right. I'll edit and add that into the blog. :>

I'm pretty sure the purpleish thing actually isn't a lupine. Or if it is, it's some odd, late variety. The buds didn't look densely packed enough to be a lupine, and were differently shaped.

I don't think the little purple guys are bluebells either; in the wiki link it looks like they grow all together on a stem. The things I saw were in sort of viny, sparse clusters. Again, maybe a different variety?? The flowers were shaped kind of similarly...

Thanks for reading the lengthy report!

 

[arghman]

neat pics. I've been there but only as day hikes, not backpacking. the repetitive hooting is a foghorn.

ok, time for some plant decoding:

Campanula rotundifolia and Lathyrus japonicus. The leaves are beach pea, the flowers are bluebells. Both very common downeast on rocky shores.

Clintonia borealis -- you got it, Jay H!

Lathyrus japonicus

Streptopus lanceolatus -- twisted-stalk. Could be S. amplexifolius but somewhat doubtful, the leaves would be more clasping around the stem.

Chamerion angustifolium -- fireweed.

 

[The Unstrung Harp]

Thank you so much, arghman!!

And I LOVE that you make a Lorax reference.

 

[blaze]

lovely photographs! thank you for sharing.