Our first meeting was September 10th. It was preceded by a Steering Committee meeting at 5:30. Everyone is welcome to attend Steering Committee meetings.

Greetings

It was wonderful to see so many of you at our recent picnic. It is now time to think about getting back to being a club for the upcoming season. We meet on the second Tuesday of each month from September through May at 6:30pm in the Mellon Room of the Northeast Harbor Library.

We will have sign up sheets for members to volunteer to lead outings and also to lead programs or find presenters for the upcoming season. Let’s put on our thinking caps and come up with some great ideas this year!

Volunteers Needed

We are hoping to fill a few of the vacant volunteer positions for this upcoming season. It takes a village to keep things running smoothly and we are grateful for the folks who help coordinate the various club activities. We are in need of help in Program Coordination, Outings Coordination and Membership Coordination. The current descriptions of these activities are here on our website, but volunteers can change these jobs to fit their own needs and talents

Memberships

New and returning members may register and pay for the upcoming club season here on our website. Dues are still only $25 per year. Heckuva deal! Help out our acting Programs Coordinator by signing up now.

Assignment

Our “assignment” for our first meeting was “Best Images Since our Last Meeting” or “What I Did on My Summer Vacation.”

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Top to bottom, left to right: Row 1: kelp holdfast, driftwood, Waved Whelk (Buccinum undatum), Jonah Crab (Cancer borealis), Horse Mussel (Modiolus modiolus), lobster claw (Homarus americanus) Row 2: Lobster head, Waved Whelk, juvenile horse mussel, Dog Whelk (Nucella lapillus), seal vertebra [probably Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulinaI but possibly Gray Seal (Halichoerus grypus)], Horse Mussel, seal humerus [as before], Waved Whelk, Green Sea Urchin (Strongylocentrotus drobachiensis) Row 3: Northern Rock Barnacle (Semibalanus balanoides), plastic cable tie, crab claw, sea urchin, Rock Crab (Cancer irroratus) , 2 rows of Common Periwinkle (Littorina littorea), sea urchin, lobster, 2 Blue Mussel (Mytilus edulis), Dog Whelk, lobster claw Row 4: lobster trap rope, kelp holdfast, 2 dog whelks, juvenile horse mussel, seal vertebra, kelp holdfast, seal pelvic bone, sea glass, sea urchin Row 5: lobster leg segment, Green Crab (Carcinus maenas), Horse Mussel, lobster tail segment, Irish Moss (Chondrus crispus)
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Top to bottom, left to right: Waved Whelk (Buccinum undatum), blue bottle top, 2 Dog Whelks (Nucella lapillus), blue plastic straw, 4 tiny crab legs, green sea glass, 2 Dog Whelks, crab claw, 2 broken Waved Whelks, bird leg bone, 8 Blue Mussels (Mytilus edulis), 8 Common Periwinkle (Littorina littorea), juvenile White-tailed Deer skull (Odocoileus virgininus), Jonah Crab (Cancer borealis), Rock Crab (Cancer irroratus), lobster claw (Homarus americanus), 2 Common Periwinkle, lobster trap rope, balloon and ribbon, spruce cones (Picea sp.), Rock Crab, Jonah Crab, sea glass, Jonah Crab, Green Crab (Carcinus maenas), orange plastic straw, 2 green crabs, shotgun cartridge, 2 broken Dog Whelks, Old Man’s Beard lichen (Usnea sp.)
Top to bottom, left to right: Blue Mussel (Mytilus edulis), driftwood, sardine tin cover, soft shell clam (Mya arenaria), White Pine cone (Pinus strobus), plastic bottle cap with Northern Rock Barnacle (Semibalanus balanoides), Blue Mussel, nacre of Blue Mussel, barnacle, Limpet (Testudinalia testudinalis), Slipper Shell (Crepidula fornicata), clam, beech seeds (Fagus sylvatica), beech seed capsules, Rockweed (Ascophyllum nodosum), beech seed capsules, lobster claw (Homarus americanus), periwinkles stained by iron chains in the water, broken glass, plastic wrapper, sea glass, Blue Mussel, periwinkles, Soft Shell Clam, beech branch, beech seeds, periwinkles, bottle neck, periwinkles, clam shell hinge, Dog Whelk (Nucella lapillus), Blue Mussel .
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Critique / Discussion

Five images were submitted for discussion.  George shared a particularly neat trick for making a group selfie without a tripod using the panorama function.  The person on the right of the group photo starts the panorama and hands off the phone to the person on the left edge of the photo before running to get into the shot before the phone is panned to the right edge of the image.

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