My View of Life on the Dock
Just talked to Joe Novello, Fiesta Committee president,who is on the Coast Guard boat right now dropping flags and buoys. Tonight’s seineboat eliminations start at 5:30. These races will be only necessary for the men’s crews only. Come on down to Pavillion Beach to cheer on your favorite!
I never knew there was a fleshy animal living inside the razor sharp barnacle enclosures. Tuffy brought this cluster of barnacles that had grown around a black fishing net float. In many of the pictures I included a quarter so you can get an idea of the scale of these humongous creatures. I also got some pretty decent video of the creatures opening their enclosures and the organism alive coming in and out of it. It’s straight out of Aliens. There are many pictures on the Barnacle Wikipedia page but nothing like these. It is a very comprehensive wiki page and interesting reading about the life cycle,adult anatomy and fossil records of barnacles.
From Wikipedia-
Barnacle
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia-
Thyrostraca, Cirrhopoda (meaning “curl-footed”), Cirrhipoda, and Cirrhipedia.
A barnacle is a type of arthropod belonging to infraclass Cirripedia in the subphylum Crustacea, and is hence related to crabs and lobsters. Barnacles are exclusively marine, and tend to live in shallow and tidal waters, typically in erosive settings. They are sessile suspension feeders, and have two nektonic larval stages. Around 1,220 barnacle species are currently known.[1] The name “Cirripedia” is Latin, meaning “curl-footed”.
Click on any of the pictures for the full sized versions- especially the first one where you can really see the moving organism. Video coming tonight
For comparisons sake look at the size of these barnacles which are more common and grow on our lobster traps. For scale the yellow wire they are attached to is less than a half a centimeter thick-
Principal Gregg Bach and the Teachers held a Fair at the school Jun 17th .
Click on Photo below to enjoy the enthusiasm and happy faces in the Slide-Show.
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From The Gloucester Daily Times-
Food for Thought Heather Atwood
No one can deny how fast the world has changed in this century, or the velocity with which we’ve discarded cultural traditions. Many ethnic foods are seen in the rear-view mirror as the bus pulls out of town, leaving behind raw sea urchins eaten at a picnic table, scooped with a hunk of crusty Italian bread, and speeds toward a horizon at which everyone eats basically the same 12 dishes.
Communities forever defined themselves by the foods they made, but now most children in this country choose macaroni and cheese over just about anything. Women choose Caesar salads, and men Buffalo wings. This is not about “local” or “sustainable” foods; it’s about the fact that some dishes — recipes that absolutely described who a person was and what community they lived in — for whatever reason are not so slowly fading into the past. Fortunately, in some cases, they are simply evolving into something different.
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Well Wonder No More
Good Morning Gloucester 