My friends brought me in to a stream that was good for native brook trout. "Keep this place quiet," they said. We hiked a trail through the woods. Pines trees rose like toothpicks from the ground. Owl country. The west wind shook the trees. At the stream, cold and …
Nature
Squid and Fog
Photos by Zach Harvey. Story by JP Lee Point Judith, R.I. --- Sometimes on windless nights in May, when everything in the harbor is still, when there’s no boat traffic, no ferries backing in or out, no welders or grinders, no fishermen pulling heavy sweeps and …
Giant tuna don’t forget.
It's a bit like the children's book, "Where's Waldo?" or for an older generation where's Richard Scarry's "Goldbug." But instead of one Waldo in the photograph, there are many. I can count about 12 giant tuna in this photo. You have to look carefully, squinting your …
After Hurricane Sandy. Sam and I go looking for things.
After searching the Town Beach in Narragansett (with what seemed like hundreds of other people) for any storm-tossed treasures, and finding only a surf clam shell, my stepson, Sam, and I decided to go for higher ground and find a place no other beachcombers had …
Where the sperm whales do blow–
I had to share this Another gem from Wayne Davis, the Rhode Island spotter pilot. Davis told me he found this pod, last week, in very deep water off Oceanographer's Canyon, well southeast of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard. Sperm whales are mysterious …
The northern edge of the Gulf Stream.
Wayne Davis with another beauty of a photo he shot from his plane 100 miles off Nantucket. He took the photo yesterday, September 13th. He was flying over Oceanographers Canyon, and found this Atlantic manta ray, Manta birostris, with a devil ray, Mobula …
