We are on spring vacation from school this week and the weather couldn’t be better! The kids went to the beach on Monday with their cousin (while I worked) and yesterday we we all took a field trip to the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary which has walking trails and some natural history exhibits.
We had a great time except for getting the heebie-jeebies Continue reading
Evolution: fish walking out of the water
When I hear about strandings, my imagination seems to take me to the evolutionary image of sea animals turning into land animals. I have a cartoon in my mind of fish “walking” out of the water. Are these dolphins trying to leave the ocean for land? I guess not…
Close to 200 dolphins have become stranded along the beaches of Cape Cod Bay this winter in what is turning out to be the largest ever mass standing for the area. Continue reading