Costumes for class (L: Abby as shore debris, R: Allie as a Yeti Crab).
Albion House snack: Hurricane Fluffernutter.
Staff came trick-or-treating.
Friday night: Carving the pumpkin.
C.W. Morgan, prepared to be hauled out.
From the water, before haulout.
3/4s of Carr House, reporting for Mystic Biological Survey duty.
Beginning to lift.
Puppytime!
Jim is represented on the Mystic River Biological Survey t-shirt.
Almost there.
All the way out.
The tracks & the keel.
Fouling organisms.
Last wooden whaleship.
The rudder.
Jim instructs.
The persuader, persuading a barnacle to leave the hull.
Rachel persuades.
Note the clean red inside the frame. We scraped the fouling organisms off.
Rudder hinge.
Ben scrapes, Nicole holds the bag.
Sometimes, Abby tries to be like the fouling organisms.
Barnacles.
Looking up the side of the Morgan.
Preservation shipyard and the forward end of the keel.
Rudder team.
St. Edmund's monastery, on Ender's Island.
Translation, please.
This and the following pictures are from the same two days, from the camera of my esteemed colleague Dennis Donovan.
Sleeping otter. Photo courtesy of Dennis Donovan
L-R: Yeti Crab, James T. Carlton, Surfer, Decorator Crab. The party theme was "Rocky (horror) Intertidal Zone." Photo courtesy of Dennis Donovan
June the Sea Turtle. Photo courtesy of Dennis Donovan
JTC, Surfer, and the Public Trust Doctrine. Photo courtesy of Dennis Donovan
The two "professor" costumes. Photo courtesy of Dennis Donovan.
Otter time! Photo courtesy of Dennis Donovan
JTC, Pirate, and Otter #2. Photo courtesy of Dennis Donovan
Sargassum. Photo courtesy of Dennis Donovan
The Mummichog, a fishy pun. Photo courtesy of Dennis Donovan
Dora the Explorer & Co. Photo courtesy of Dennis Donovan
The Rocky (horror) Intertidal Zone. Photo courtesy of Dennis Donovan
Photo courtesy of Dennis Donovan
A Dancing Slipper Limpet. Photo courtesy of Dennis Donovan
Lisa persuades, pirate-style. Photo courtesy of Dennis Donovan
Greg & Ari racing back from the monastery. Photo courtesy of Dennis Donovan