Chapter 9 – 1948

February 28, 1948 (Frog Pond through Willams Lake and Colpitt Lake to Purcell’s Cove)
Saturday. Shirley Mason and I went out to get some early leafy Liverworts. We crossed the arm on the ice opposite the Waegwoltic, and followed the brook up to the Frog Pond. The brooks were too full and the ice and snow too deep to get any Liverworts. We crossed the Frog Pond and Williams Lake to Colpitt Lake. I lost the path between Williams Lake and Colpitt Lake [coordinates 44.610186, -63.597887]. Shirley collected winter buds to put through the key. We had lunch at the south end of Colpitt Lake then on to Purcell’s Cove. There we went to Purcell’s Pond and then home via the shore of the Arm. It was cold but a splendid day.

April 19, 1948 (Kentville)
Monday. Marjorie and I drove up to Kentville. I wanted to see Hockey about Jean MacLellan’s slides of [Bitter pit] etc. All through the woods around Mount Uniacke the ground was still covered with snow and the lakes were solid with ice. Just on the Halifax side of the schoolhouse marked “Maxwell” I spotted quite a large clump of older Larch trees. At Kentville Marjorie saw her painter. We had lunch at the Kent Lodge and did some shopping. I saw Harrison and we got home about 6:00 p.m.

May 13, 1948 (Waverley, Lacey River, Bog and Bayers Lake)
Thursday. Bidwell took his car. Jane Bailly came too, and we called for Ferguson. Started about 10:30 a.m. First to Sherry Brook Waverley [coordinates 44.782519, -63.599634] where Shirley and I found the Leafy Liverwort, but we could not find any. I got a good collection of Thallus Liverwort. Then back through Bedford and out to Lacey River [coordinates 44.829242, -63.810864]. There we walked in as far as the bridge and made a good collection of Leafy liverworts with sporophyte attached. This probably would have been better earlier. We had lunch then Ferguson showed me his famous bog. Back through the arm bridge and Bidwell showed me the start of the trail to Susie Lakes. Back in the lab we put the leafy liverwort in a bottle for Bidwell to take to Kingston.

May 18, 1948 (Yarmouth etc.)
Tuesday. Went with Dr. H.D. Smith to Yarmouth etc. in his car. Stayed at the Grand Hotel for two nights. Left Seaman at Pubnico. I returned to Halifax from Lunenburg by bus on Thursday evening May 20th 1948

June 2, 1948 (Purcells Cove and Williams Lake)
Wednesday. Shirley Mason, Jane Bailly and I went to Purcells Cove [coordinates 44.612676, -63.574932] to see if Jack Pine were ready for collecting (young ovulate cones). We went in my car during the afternoon. It was quite warm. The staminate cones were not ripe and the ovulate cones had not appeared. There were a number of flowers just at their best (i.e. Crowberry) and there were a lot of others just in bloom. The black flies were bad. On the way home we went up to Williams Lake. The brook was very full of water. We got some more flowers including the Fly Honeysuckle.

June 3, 1948 (Chester)
Thursday. Jane Bailly and I went to Chester [coordinates 44.541986, -64.238008] to get male and female Fucus, Marjorie came with. We took the microscopes and spent the morning sorting seaweed. In the afternoon, we went into Chester to order a chest of drawers, then planted Norway Maple seedlings then Jane and I went up in the woods to locate beds of Hair Cap Moss. We found the Snowberry in flower and found a fine bed of moss. The Sporangium had not started to swell. It should be O.K. in about 10 day’s time. After afternoon tea we drove home.

June 14, 1948 (Purcells Cove)
Monday. Jane and I went to Purcells Cove [coordinates 44.612676, -63.574932] to get cones of Jack Pine. We left about 2:30 p.m. The cones both staminate and pistillate were just right and we made collections of each. We also collected a branch illustrating pistillate cones of three years. The [Labrador] Tea, Lambkill, and Witherod and Chokeberry were all in bud. The False Holly (Nemopanthus mucronata) was in full bloom. The black flies were bad, but on top of the hill we were able to stand them. Jane had an orange. From the top of the hill, we located most of the buildings in Halifax. We went back to the lab and put the collections in preservative.

June 14, 1948 (Hubbards, Chester and Aspotogan)
Tuesday. Jane Bailly and I started in my car about 10:00 a.m. We called for Anne Gorham at Hubbards and took her on to Chester [coordinates 44.565366, -64.219109] where we collected Haircap Moss with Calyptra still sticking on. We sorted these out in the barn at East Chester. Nora helped us a little. After eating lunch in Nora’s kitchen, we collected and pressed some False Holly (Nemopanthus mucronata). We then drove around Aspotogan [coordinates 44.523559, -64.050463] to show Anne the various beaches. At Aspotogan we collected Smilacina trifolia. The day was cold, but it did not rain. On the way back we had tea at Anne’s house at Hubbards. Back in Halifax Jane and I put the material in pickle and in the press.

June 17, 1948 (North Weaver Lake and Silver Lake)
Thursday. Jane Bailly, Shirley Mason and I went to the lakes on the Sambro Road to get water for Desmids and the plants in and around the lake [coordinates 44.556874, -63.642155]. We started about 2:30 p.m. At Weaver Lake we got white Andromeda glaucophylla also some Kalmia polifolia. The flies were pretty bad, there was lots of Cranberry, but it was not in bloom. At Silver Lake there was some deep pink Andromeda and lots of white also lots of the Pale laurel. Shirley found some Utricularia with the bladders on the submerged capillary dissected leaves. She also found some Batrachospermum. They looked like old plants with new growth starting. Jane found every shade of Andromeda. I took off my boots and waded and promptly went through the floating Sphagnum up to my middle in the water beneath. Silver is a very interesting lake. We went back to the lab. Shirley and Jane put the plants in a press. I identified the Batrachospermum.

June 22, 1948 (Preston and South Eastern Passage)
Tuesday. Jane Bailly and I started for Lake Eagle, Preston, about 10:30 a.m. It was fine but cloudy and cold. We packed the car in the usual place and walked in. There were a lot of ordinary flowers to be checked on the way in. On the west side of the run from the lake [coordinates 44.742196, -63.447181] the Indian Cucumber was not yet in bloom. The Trilliums were over, and the Lady Slipper was in flower. The flies were very bad. We had lunch on the rock at the point and there were a few showers of rain. On the way out we noticed the Poison Ivy as very small young plants. We drove back to the main road via the schoolhouse. From Dartmouth we drove down to Barrie Beach, that is South Eastern Passage. In the pond there the seeds and rushes were not yet in flower. We got back to the lab about 5:30 p.m.

June 28, 1948 (Herring Cove and Chebucto Head)
Monday. J. W. Lawson, Jane Bailly and I went to Herring Cove [coordinates 44.569646, -63.556660] to get Ascophyllum tips. The tide was too high to get Laminaria strips. We left about 9:30 a.m. At Herring Cove, J. W. fell off the bank and I thought he was killed but he only cut his hand. We collected the growing tips of Ascophyllum and could not find any Laminaria washed up on the shore. We went on to Chebucto Head. The whole landscape there has changed greatly since I was there last. We saw the view from the lighthouse, and I collected some flowers for Jane Bailly. We got home about 12:30 p.m. The next day I threw out the tips by mistake.

July 6, 1948 (Holland Lake)
Tuesday. Shirley Mason and I went out to Holland Lake to look over the project. It was raining hard so we did not accomplish much, but we made plans. Immediately after having lunch, we came back.

July 8, 1948 (Marlborough Woods etc.)
Thursday. Jane Bailly and I after collecting the apple twigs at my place, collected Daisies at the foot of Oakland Rd. [coordinates 44.632515, -63.593157] and then went through the woods hunting for Huckleberry. Along the railroad tracks, the Lambkill was in full bloom. The [Teaberry] showed no sign of flowers and this year’s plants were just growing up. The Huckleberry was finished flowering and young berries were forming. We brought a lot of flowers back to the lab for Jane to examine. It was a fine day.

July 9, 1948 (Dingle)
Friday. Jane Bailly and I drove over to the Dingle early in the afternoon. On the hill up from Fairy Cove [coordinates 44.629918, -63.598463] we collected some Gaylussacia baccata which was still in flower but at an advanced stage. It was just what I needed for Botany 220. We wandered through the woods to the Frog Pond and found Ilex verticillata with the flowers still in the bud. At first, I did not recognize it. All through that area there was an abundance of Huckleberry, especially just east of the Frog Pond. The flowers were mainly over. On the way back to the road I took the wrong path and came out by the Church.  We then walked around the east side of Castle Frank and back over the top of the hill. Where the fire burnt over a couple of years ago there was an abundant growth of Vaccinium angustifolium var. laevifolium.

At the Frog Pond the leaves of Pontederia cordata were plentiful but no flowers. I took a plant to the lab for identification.

July 10, 1948 (Bog, St. John the Divine [coordinates 44.636209, -63.619848])
Saturday. Jane found from looking at the mounts, that we might be missing the bog Orchids. So, we beat it out to the bog fast and sure enough the Orchid, Pogonia ophioglossoides was in full bloom and Colopogen was just coming out. We made a collection of Pogonia. Gaylussacia Dumosa was just coming into flower, so we made plants to go back on Monday.

July 12, 1948 (Bog, St. John the Divine [coordinates 44.636209, -63.619848])
Monday. Jane Bailly went out during the morning and collected herbarium material of Ilex glabra ^[1]. Distance six (6) miles. We took the puff-puff to keep off the flies. It is a good scheme.

July 17, 1948 (Bog, St. John the Divine [coordinates 44.636209, -63.619848])
Saturday. Jane and I went out to the Church bog to get some Ilex glabra which we thought would be in flower. The three “sluggers” went with us. The inkberry, so far as we could see, was at the same stage as it was before.  Perhaps they are the young berries.

July 19, 1948 (Harry Lake, Sambro Rd.)
Monday. Jane Bailly, Shirley Mason and I went out with Jim Lewin in the jeep. They took the rubber boat. This is a magnificent collecting region both in and around the lake [coordinates 44.529818, -63.672162]. Shirley and Jim worked in the lake while Jane and I collected. A list of the plants collected is attached. Jane and I went out with them for a trip in the boat and Jane put the plants in the press on the spot. We got back about 4:00 p.m.

Plants collected:

• Nymphoides cordatum
• Sparganium angustifolium
• Lobelia dortmanna
• Cypripedium acaule
• Linnaea borealis var. americana
• Moneses uniflora
• Veronica officinalis
• Pyrola elliptica
• Oxalis montana
• Habenaria obtusata

July 22, 1948 (Oakfield)
Thursday. Jane Bailly, Shirley Mason and I went to check the flowers in bloom at this period. Muriel Ord, Ann Watts and Hope Bridgeford came with us to get slugs. We arrived just as Col. Laurie and family were leaving. I met young Laurie. The sluggers got a lot of slugs around the barn and Rose, the manager, told them he would keep his eye out for more.  We all went on to Indian Point [coordinates 44.92372, -63.583553]. Shirley got some flowers, but the sluggers were interested in the common forms of flowers of which there was a multitude. Tearthumb and a number of other numbers of the genus Polygonum were in excellent shape. At Indian Point Shirley found Actaea rubra in fruit. She found some orchids too. I slept for an hour and the five girls hunted for flowers. Shirley brought home a number of ferns to identify. We got back in Halifax a little after 4:00 p.m. I had to go to a civic reception for DeWolfe and Piers.

Plants collected:

• Actaea rubra
• Habenaria blephariglottis
• Hypericum boreale
• Thalictrum polygamum
• Corallorhiza maculate
• Corallorhiza maculata var. flavida

July 28, 1948 (Gorham Lake [Holman Marsh Lake])
Wednesday. Shirley Mason, Jane Bailly, Jim Lewin, Cuthbertson, Jim Rose, and I went out to Gorham  Lake [Holman Marsh Lake] [coordinates 44.568763, -63.775741] to start a survey of that area. My car was left at the church and for the remainder of the trip we all went in the jeep. It was a very rough trip. The area from the Prospect Road in appeared very interesting. There were quantities of Colopogen and Bog Huckleberry. At Gorham Lake [Holman Marsh Lake] we divided into parties (we had two rubber boots) and located the stations for Shirley. We had lunch, for which Lewin brewed some tea, and after lunch started to do the stations. When we were nearly through, a thunderstorm started and we made tracks for the jeep. We all got wet, but Shirley got it the worst. She was at the far end of the lake without a boat. We brought the stuff collected back to the lab and then went home to get dry. Jane Bailly came to my house to have a bath.

July 29, 1948 (Big Indian Lake [coordinates 44.597711, -63.712333])
Thursday. John S. Erskine came out with us to identify mosses. The party consisted also of Shirley, Jane Bailly, Muriel Ord, Ann watts, Hope Bridgeford and I. On the way out I missed the spot where we should have stopped and had to come back. The car was left at the Umlah house. On the way down to the Lake Erskine was excellent at showing us the mosses at the dam. Ann Watts and Hope Bridgeford went in for a swim. We all crossed over the dam, Erskine and I collecting some mosses on the other side. As Erskine identified the mosses, Jane and Shirley put them in envelopes. All the material was taken back to the lab and the next day Jane glued the mosses to sheets of mounting paper.

July 31, 1948 [location unknown]
Saturday. This is the day Shirley etc. did not get out of Oakfield to camp. On the night before (Friday night) the night watchman stole Shirley’s supply of food.

August 9, 1948 (Holland [Marsh] Lake and Lake Louise)
Monday. Shirley, Jane and I went out to Holland [Marsh] Lake [coordinates 44.669463, -63.818911] to check certain details regarding bearings and Sphagnum distribution. We finished the former before lunch. Lewin and Louise Joudrey drove in and had lunch with us. After lunch we checked the Sphagnum mats and found there were not any, but we located a large bed of dry peat. We then went to Lake Louise and found that the Water Saturated Sphagnum Margin (W.S.S.M.) extended all around the side for at least as far as the lake is wide. We were back in the lab by 4:00 pm. It was a fine day in every way.

August 11, 1948 (Chester)
Wednesday. Jane Bailly and I went to Chester for various things. Marjorie and [Maggie] went with us as for as Peggy’s where they stayed. At Chester Jane and I got good collections of Pea Nodules, Ascophyllum tips, and Mustard. We ate our lunch on the verandah. Then we went into Chester and got Anne Gorham’s cabinet from Moland. The tide was OK for the Ascophyllum when we got back. On the way back through Hubbards we called in at Gorham’s. Anne was away but her mother was there and kept the cabinet for Anne to paint. We had supper with Peggy. Marjorie and [Maggie] stayed, Jane and I went back to Halifax and took the stuff to the lab. Jane and I got trapped on [Citadel] in reception for Betty Jean Ferguson.

August 12, 1948 (Mount Uniacke [coordinates 44.892004, -63.829272])
Thursday. Shirley and I went out to have a look at Bidwell’s raised bog. Jane Bailly came too as did two of the sluggers, namely Anne Watts and Muriel Ord. At first, we had difficulty in locating the bog, but Shirley found it and we walked right across it. The place is even more interesting than expected. Shirley and I went right through to the upper part of the Sackville River. On the raised part we located Sphagnum holes at the highest levels. We all went back to the Forrest Bldg. and Jane came to our house for supper (which Jimmie cooked). Jane Bailly, Shirley and Marie Bruce picked raspberries after supper.

August 13, 1948 (Kennedy’s Road [coordinates 44.661197, -63.951777])
Friday. I left Halifax at 7:15 a.m. to bring Marjorie back to Halifax. Shirley Mason went with me to get some mounts of the double flowers of the Queen of the Meadow. Shirley got these flowers and also some escapes of Snapdragon. Peggy gave us breakfast and we were back in Halifax about 10:00 a.m.

August 14, 1948 (Herring Cove)
Saturday. Jane Bailly and I went to Herring cove [coordinates 44.569835, -63.556121] to get some stipes of kelp for making slides of the trumpet cells. There had been a big storm the night before and the waves were so high that for a time we thought we were not going to get the stipe, but we went to the cove on the far side of the big rock. There Jane found a big piece of stipe and I got some small plants with good stipes.  Before this I had got pretty wet. We put the material in the killing fluid immediately and I examined it when we got back to the lab. Jane and Shirley left for Lunenburg that afternoon.

August 17, 1948 (Two Weavers Lakes and Silver Lake)
Tuesday. Shirley, Jane and I went out to make records for the two Weaver Lakes. Jim Lewin took a rubber boat out for us and launched it in Weavers South Lake [coordinates 44.580944, -63.638814] and left the boat for us after taking some samples. We went around the lake and saw all that was needed before lunch, then we moved to Weavers North Lake [coordinates 44.582886, -63.639651] where I had left my car and there, we had lunch. For going around the lake we borrowed the boat from the man who lives beside the lake. It took us longer to reach this lake for there was a much greater variety of shoreline. While we were working at the north end Jim Lewin called and took the rubber boat back for us. When we had finished, we went to Silver Lake [coordinates 44.556874, -63.642155]. There we measured the thickness of the peat with the iron rod and also took back some samples of Sphagnum for desmids. It was a fine warm day.

August 18, 1948 (Doyle Lake)
Wednesday. Jim Lewin took Shirley and myself out to Doyle Lake in the jeep to have a look at the water saturated margin around the lake. We finished at the lake before lunch and then had lunch there. After lunch we went to Run Lake, rowed across in the rubber boat and carried the boat to Bluff Lake.  About this time, it started to rain. We rowed around the lake a little and then went back. I lost my glasses on the way in and Jim Lewin found them. We were back in the lab by about 3:00 p.m.

August 19, 1948 (Beattie Lake)
Thursday. Jim Lewin took Shirley and myself to see Beattie Lake. Jim Rose went as Lewin’s assistant and Muriel Ord, and Jane Bailly went with him. We all went down Eel Pond in the rubber boat propelled by an outboard, walked into Beattie Lake, had lunch, did our work and returned to the cars. On the way back the outboard did not behave very well. The jeep went back to Halifax, but I took my party up the Musquodoboit River nearly to middle Musquodoboit then back via the Old Guysborough Road. At Waverly we got gas from “Uncle Warren”. It was 6:30 p.m. when I got home. It was a glorious June day and not too hot.

August 21, 1948 (Gorham Lake)
Saturday. Jim Lewin took Shirley and I to Gorham Lake [location unknown] to check the Sphagnum margin around the lake. Jim was getting some water samples. We left about 9:30 a.m. and were through Gorham Lake about noon. We then drove out to the road, got some gas and tea, then went to the dam at Big Indian Lake where we had lunch. At the entrance to the road to Big Indian Jim Lewin took the jeep through the ditch, bog, woods and rock piles to get around three road trucks. Jim boiled some tea for lunch. After lunch Shirley practiced driving the jeep around the clearing. When we were getting dressed, I discovered that I had left my shoes at Gorham Lake. Jim Lewin drove all the way in to get them. When we got back to the main road, that is at the Church, Shirley took over the car and drove all the way to the corner of Oxford Street and Jubilee Road. She went past Eddie Murray’s. Shirley and I went to the lab, her room and almost to Mrs. Bruce’s.

August 23 – September 3, 1948 (Wallace)
Monday to Friday. Shirley went on her vacation to Wallace. She took Muriel Ord and Muriel’s sister with her.

August 24, 1948 (Lunenburg etc.)
Tuesday. About 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon Marjorie and I started for Lunenburg. Jane Bailly (and her trunk) went with us. We got to Lunenburg about 6:30 p.m., deposited Jane at the home, then Marjorie and I put up at the Bluenose Inn where we had evening meal. During the evening we walked around Lunenburg with Jane’s mother and Violet and had ice cream at the Bailly’s. On Wednesday morning we went out to Blue Rocks and then parked in the middle of Heckmans Island and walked over to the beach on Rupe Kaulbach’s place. We had dinner at the Bailly’s. During the afternoon we went to the Ovens. May came with us. It had turned out to be a fine warm day. After leaving the Bailly’s in Lunenburg, we started for home, picked up Janet at Chester and got back to Halifax about 7:00 p.m.  It was a good trip and Marjorie enjoyed it.

August 30-September 1, 1948 (Pubnico)
Monday to Wednesday. I went down in my car with Doug Fraser. We stayed with Ruben d’Eon. We were out on the water all Tuesday, and on Wednesday morning I inspected rockweed work [coordinates 43.702489, -65.784222]. Tuesday was fine, Wednesday was rainy. We drove home on Wednesday afternoon.

September 7-8, 1948
Tuesday and Wednesday. Seaweed Conference

September 10, 1948 (Portuguese Cove)
Friday. Anne Gorham and I went down the Chebucto Head Road [coordinates 44.500891, -63.520622] so that Anne could show me where the cranberries grew. The patch was just on the Halifax side of Portuguese Cove.

September 11, 1948 (Bluff Lake)
Saturday. Shirley Mason, Cameron, Jim Lewin and I went out in the jeep to do some survey work on Bluff Lake [coordinates 44.548497, -63.645775]. It started to rain so hard that it would have been impossible to make records. So, we circled around through Sambro (in by the Herring Cove Road), had lunch at the Rocking Stone and were back in the lab at about 2:00 p.m.

September 13, 1948 (Bluff Lake)
Monday. Jim Lewin took Shirley, Cameron and I out to Bluff Lake to do some of the survey work on the lake. We went as far as Run Lake in the jeep and then went across Run Lake in a rubber boat and walked in to Bluff Lake [coordinates 44.548497, -63.645775]. Jim and I worked on the shore while Shirley and Cameron were out in the boat. Shirley took depths while Cameron rowed. At lunch Jim boiled some tea. He had his pup with him. We worked until 3:30 p.m. and then came home. Shirley found it cold out in the boat and wore my sweater.

September 16, 1948 (Mount Uniacke)
Thursday. Shirley, Anne Gorham and I went to Mount Uniacke [coordinates 44.892004, -63.829272] and cut a fir tree for [?] (Triarch). We went during the afternoon.

September 22, 1948 (Porters Lake)
Wednesday. Shirley and I started early in the morning for Porter Lake [coordinates 44.737684, -63.313075]. Shirley drove part of the way down. At the lake we drove into the place where the road starts into the woods and parked the car there. At first, I took the path too far to the left and landed at the lake shore much too soon. Then I went too far to the right and found myself on the north side of a little upland lake. After much rough walking we came out on the lake right at Sandy Cove. There we had lunch and a rest. The growth around the cove was very interesting. We had no trouble finding the path back and we drove home via Chezzetcook etc. Shirley got some Fox Berries form a woman at Three Fathom Harbour. We were back in the laboratory by about 5:45 p.m.

September 24, 1948 (Windsor and Kentville)
Friday. I took Shirley on a trip to visit some lakes.  Marjorie and Ann Gorham came with us. During the morning we took in the following: Char Mud Hole near the Meander River, Sink Hole just beyond the Meander River and Lily Lake behind North of Center Burlington. We then went to Kentville and had lunch at the Kent Lodge, visited Chase’s (where we left Marjorie), visited the farm (where we saw Hockey), then went back to Kentville and picked up Marjorie. We next went to Centreville [coordinates 45.134147, -64.528721] and looked at a pond with a floating Sphagnum mat, went back to Kentville (where we bought China at Palmeter’s), visited the farm where we got a lot of fruit (and saw Hockey again). Finally, we went to Hantsport where we looked at a pond with an algae bloom. We were home by about 6:45 p.m.

September 27, 1948 (St. John the Divine Church, Silver Lake [coordinates 44.556874, -63.642155])
­Monday. Anne Gorham and I went out in the afternoon in my car. We collected Desmids at the bog near St. John the Divine, Silver Lake and Lake Louise. We got back at twenty to six. I took the stuff over to the college in the evening. It was a glorious day

September 28, 1948 (Purcells Cove)
Tuesday. Shirley, Anne Gorham and I went to Purcells Cove [coordinates 44.612676, -63.574932] to locate the south line of the Dalhousie property. Marjorie came with us and took some tea and food. We located the south boundary, then followed it over the top of the hill. Marjorie stayed in a sheltered spot on top of the hill. The rest of us went on to the bog, located the line there, then cleared about a square yard of bushes and dug up about another square yard of peat. We then went back and after having tea etc. with Marjorie we went home arriving in Halifax about 5:30 p.m.

September 30, 1948 (River Herbert Meadow)
Thursday. Shirley took me to a meadow her cousins had shown her. Marie Bruce came as a guide and Ann Gorham came too. We started about 9:30 a.m. and went out the Beaverbank road. We took a path into the west and went in for about a mile or less, then we hit the meadow alongside a winding river. We followed down the meadow and had lunch on an island in the Meadow.  We had a rest and then went to the end of the Meadow. Marie found a jersey dropped by Shirley’s cousin; she also found the path out. She is a good guide. Shirley and I got a lift in a truck back to my car and then after picking up the others, we went back via Rawdon. Shirley drove quite a bit of the way. It was a lovely day and a great trip.

Friday October 1, 1948 (Purcells Bog, etc.)
Friday. Dan Livingstone came with me to see the bog back of Purcells Cove [coordinates 44.612676, -63.574932]. He saw the spot that Shirley, Anne and I had prepared. On the way home we visited the bogs at St. John the Divine and on the St. Margarets Bay Road Hill. We started a little after 4:00 p.m and were back before 6:00 p.m.