Closing Time

Today was our last day on the nature cruise. It was kind of bittersweet. Bitter because it means our trip is coming to an end but sweet because it was becoming kind of repetitive. Everyone on the cruise is really nice and I’m going to miss being embarrassed over the speaker and having all the passengers stare at us. Speaking of the passengers, I’m also going to miss seeing all of the different people Bar Harbor attracts. I’m also going to miss our mentor, Tanya, who has been a big help to us and is really nice. I’ve realized her life is jam packed with all kind of different endeavors so I really do appreciate that she stepped up and agreed to mentor us. She is currently working to get her doctorate, she teaches at Unity college, works at Allied Whale, is a naturalist on the nature cruises and also goes out on the whale watches. She is also currently living on her sailboat, which is approximately an hour and a half away. These past two days she’s been trying to move it closer to Allied Whale so her commute wouldn’t be so bad. Anyway, with that being said I’d just like to give her a shout out for being great!

~Bre

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Since we have limited time here in Maine, we have worked through the weekends, so the past few days have again been quite routine.  We've been seeing less and less seals out at Egg Rock, mainly because the tide times change and the nature cruise has been overlapping with high tide.  Before when we were going out it was low tide, and much more of the rock was exposed, leaving much more flat surfaces for the seals to haul out.  (they need flat surfaces because they travel well on uneven land for obvious reasons)  Also, the past couple days, the peregrine falcon that has been sighted daily in around the same area has not been visible.  Angie, the naturalist, is speculating that its disappearance is due to the fact that it's nesting, so yay because they are considered an endangered species.

~Lindsay   

Here are two seals that look absolutely fed up with people taking pictures of them.