Arwen Holding A Jellyfish

This is a picture of arwen holding a lion`s mane jellyfish.

JELLYFISH AT THE BEACH

jelly fish at beach

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trip to the dike

ok i know that we havent been blogging much but we just moved from parksville to port alberni and we aren't by the ocean anymore, instead, we are by the forest and all the great ponds and rivers. we took a amazing trip to the dike(a local river by my grandma's house)and we got some awesome pic of some funky fungi and some crayfish that me and nik dived down to catch with our nets and gear. we caught five crayfish and got pics of them. we also got some snails(not from the water)we took a a few pictures of them all. and without further writing i will now post this and our pics. ps hope you injoy them.

Jellies in a bucket

We headed to French Creek beach this Saturday to enjoy the sunshine and test out the waters and the sand. The water was rather murky, but we ventured in anyway, with more than one exclamation of "Ew, there's seaweed in my shoe!" It wasn't until I was up to my waist that I saw the jellies! They were all around, just bobbing in the tide, about the size of donuts. I didn't know what kind of jellies they were, so I, Arwen on hip, waded out and called the boys out as well, just in case. We caught a few jellies and put them in a bucket and just hung out with them for an hour or so. I have no idea if they were dead or alive, but they sure were pretty! Our book called them "water jellies" or "bicycle jellies".

Pics from the Bog...

Caddisfly larva

Ok, so this isn't our photo, but ours are very similar (albeit more out of focus). We journeyed to Hamilton Marsh and saw, among other things, these weird bunches of twigs and grasses that seemed to be moving around, but when you pulled them out, they were just, it seemed, very wet pinecone? or dead drowned and mutilated bumblebees? No, as it turns out, they are Caddisfly larva. We must have plucked 6 or so out of the water before we realized that they were playing games with us, holing up inside their little nests until we put them back.

Meet the kittens! ᐃᖃᓗᐃᑦ

In honour of Nunavut's 10th anniversary, we've officially named this little guy Iqaluit. (If you need a pronounciation, follow this link). I hope as much as possible to write his name in the Inukitut script, as you can see in the title.