The Adventures of Shatoosh and Pashmina

Shatoosh, an Albin 25 HN 1124, and Pashmina, a 9 foot Porta Bote have cruised over 8,500nm on 70 navigable waterways in the California Delta, the Columbia, Snake, Willamette Rivers and the Salish Sea of Washington and British Columbia. In 2011 they crossed the Columbia River bar to cruise the Washington coast and in 2012 they replicated Peter Puget's 1792 exploration of the southern waters of Puget Sound. In 2015 and 2016 the boats were sold. In 2018 Shatoosh was sold again and is in AZ.

Saturday, July 14, 2012

What is This Strange Plant?

This is what was growing on the oyster mounds in Chapman Cove.

I called Too Tall to see if he has seen the recent postings of this flower and to tell him I am wanting to identify it. He asks numerous questions and I go back to my initial impression. It seemed to look like a carpet of moss, rather than wild flowers. After settling on this possibility, I find starry moss, but that wasn't it. So I typed in yellow star moss and bingo I have a match.

Yellow Star Moss or Campylium stellatum. It seems Menzies had noticed them in British Columbia.