Soooooo relaxed. A much longer weekend than I expected. Just drifted in and haven't even cleaned out the car. It was amazing! Beautiful weather (no, no rain--I'm not a wet purist) and almost completely alone with nature. Drove much farther away than I had planned and finally arrive at about 1am to pitch a tent in mere sliver-moon light.
Woke up the next morning to an amazing sight of flocks of birds huddled tight to the sand in little depressions like eggs in a crate and evenly spaced. I took Sand County Almanac to re-read and it was perfect. One could almost imagine the world wasn't as compromised as you know it is.
Thanks for the notes I returned to. I'm going to reply to each. Especially thanks to Snottlebocket for the veen images. Are "bog" and "veen" the same? Is this where the "mound people" are from? Anyone reading this should go to Snottlebocket's journal and follow the links to his photographs.
More later.
Woke up the next morning to an amazing sight of flocks of birds huddled tight to the sand in little depressions like eggs in a crate and evenly spaced. I took Sand County Almanac to re-read and it was perfect. One could almost imagine the world wasn't as compromised as you know it is.
Thanks for the notes I returned to. I'm going to reply to each. Especially thanks to Snottlebocket for the veen images. Are "bog" and "veen" the same? Is this where the "mound people" are from? Anyone reading this should go to Snottlebocket's journal and follow the links to his photographs.
More later.
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As for you're question, parasitology is something I am interested in. That is to say, I havn't actually had much of a chance to study it yet.
The schistasomes I may get a chance to study this summer sound pretty amazing. They have a triple host life cycle, starting with a marine snail. Eggs hatch in the snail, and then snail is eaten by fish. Worms develope in the fish, and actually cause the fish (physiologically? psycologically?) to start swimming on it's side! This of course makes the fish an easy target to spot by predatory birds, which just so happen to be the necessary final host for the schistasome. I think thats pretty fascinating!