Urban Nature Walk in the Quincy Quarries!

[urbpan]

Today there was an Urban Nature Walk at Quincy Quarries! Nice view, huh?








This is a remnant of the first railroad in the US!










Urban Nature Walk normal...


and Urban Nature Walk with bunny ears.


Quincy Quarries is popular with rock climbers. One of these contemplates her well-earned view.






Climbing high (or clambering high) and resting there seems like an essential human behavior.


Flooded quarry in the front, towns in the middle, Boston Harbor in the background.


Friend Ale (pronounced Allie) stands on the edge of a vernal pool she helped certify.


Four Nature Friends gather around something--what is it?!


It's a massively gravid wood frog!


Also in the bucket: a male wood frog! Both were released into the pool to help propagate the species and whatnot.


While we saw uncountable numbers of mourning cloaks (unphotographed by me, due to technical limitations), most dramatic were the great numbers of garter snakes. By the one vernal pool there were at least 8 snakes darting around our boots!


Public art was everpresent, mostly in the form of large-format graffiti, but also some small pieces like this lovely wheel of life (swastika).

Comments

[bleppo.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I lived in Quincy for three years and never once went to the quarries. I lived less than a mile from Wollaston Beach and went there maybe a half dozen times in those three years.

Of course it doesn't help that spent most of those three years inebriated.

Hey, maybe I did do all those things and I just don't remember!

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

What do you live close to now that you've never been to?