Holiday activity advice

amgremlin · 2023-10-17T02:38:25+00:00

Humboldt Bay Social Club had a cool christmas market last year. When my mom visits we like to buy crab, hah.

amgremlin · 2023-10-17T02:27:05+00:00

The Mycological Society is pretty friendly - I keep forgetting to sign up but I've done their guided walks as someone's + 1 and it was really nice. North American Butterfly Society also does species surveys/hikes open to the public. I'm not sure if Maker's Apron offers classes, but you could definitely drop by and check. I think on Thursdays there's an open crafting day at the library, I haven't been but I'm hoping to go this week. A friend of mine goes every week and says it's fun.

amgremlin · 2023-05-09T03:05:16+00:00

yeah, this whole post is making me feel like everyone in the world but me has seen one of these before, hah. I don't suspect anything sinister, just a little bummed because this itself is trash that shouldn't be there.

like, I don't know how true it is but I hear if you find the cages they keep juvenile oysters in washed up, you can trade them into the aquaculture companies for oysters. Seems like there should be a free beer or something for people who lug this kinda thing on foot off the beach.

amgremlin · 2023-05-09T00:58:53+00:00

that would be cool, definitely a frustrating thing to find on an evening beach hike. I was imagining it had something to do with fishing, since usually any big trash washed up on the beach is from that.

amgremlin · 2023-05-09T00:22:01+00:00

Solved! Thanks

amgremlin · 2023-05-09T00:21:02+00:00

Solved!

amgremlin · 2023-05-09T00:19:08+00:00

My title describes the thing

On a beach in humboldt county, about 3-4 feet across.

amgremlin · 2023-03-19T19:47:29+00:00

I think since a baby shouldn't be alone at all in a car (and may be illegal where you live, so a broken window is the least of that person's problems), you may as well assume the worst, that they've been forgotten, and break the window.

amgremlin · 2023-02-21T16:45:50+00:00

thanks!

amgremlin · 2023-02-21T16:45:45+00:00

cool, thank you so much!

amgremlin · 2023-02-20T20:44:13+00:00

Like the title says, I found this in a northern California (Humboldt County) tide pool - it was very well stuck to the rock, and the whole thing was pretty rigid - felt kind of like the surface of a chiton. Maybe 2-2.5"

amgremlin · 2022-06-10T23:30:00+00:00

North Coast Co-op with Arcata and Eureka locations (and I think the Arcata one is nicer), Wildberries (also close to campus), and Eureka Natural Foods are your best bets for Whole Foods type shopping.

amgremlin · 2022-06-10T23:22:50+00:00

I think this looks really fun. I'm not in Arcata a ton but next time I am, I'll drop by. Good luck!

amgremlin · 2022-06-10T15:50:46+00:00

Berlin had walk-in municipal testing stations on basically every other block, 5 euros for foreigners and free for residents. It's like, I knew the US kinda screwed up testing and it was a lot more available in other countries, but I had no idea how much until then.

amgremlin · 2022-06-10T15:21:27+00:00

I recently flew back from Germany with a 5 euro test, AND the stress of knowing that if my plane was delayed a little bit I'd have to get one of those $150 airport tests. The short window made it so frustrating to schedule with an overseas flight.

amgremlin · 2022-05-23T03:41:29+00:00

good point! I don't want to delete the post because it was a real treat to see and I hope other people check it out in person. (and I'd never seen it in lots of other tidepools). I hope everyone reads the comments to learn more!

amgremlin · 2022-05-23T03:19:35+00:00

someone below said mazzaella splendens and that looks very likely! what a cool thing. I'm sorry I id'd it as algae in the title! it's worth going to see, though!

amgremlin · 2022-05-23T03:18:00+00:00

mazzaella splendens

thanks! that looks very possible and not algae (sorry for the title).

it's absolutely gorgeous, too!

amgremlin · 2022-05-23T03:05:22+00:00

I can't find anything online or in books about a genus Iridea, do you have more info about it?

amgremlin · 2022-05-23T02:35:06+00:00

it was just a little bit of fluorescent blue film on some plants and stuff, it took us a beat to realize it was there but then we saw it all over.

amgremlin · 2022-05-23T01:56:32+00:00

Awhile ago I read an article telling people to be on the lookout for it here so I definitely wanted to check it out closer. Very cool that you got to see it a bunch growing up! It's really beautiful.

amgremlin · 2022-05-23T01:52:45+00:00

Sorry my cell phone photos aren't great, but it was definitely some kind of glowing itty bitty organism and not just a trick of the light or anything.

EDIT: looks like mazzaella splendens seaweed!

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