Helen Yrmom

Alright 3% battery so last post of the walk. Thanks for coming along! Found an abalone shell, just one today.

Snowy Egret In the late 1800’s the plumes were so desirable for ladies hats, they sold for roughly $1000 an ounce in today’s fiat bucks. The poaching of these birds lead to the formation of the Audubon Society and the first laws protecting birds in the US. https://blossom.primal.net/21376032a6853f118d58508dec15b5fcb26f31b99e23a90dad574f73910e543f.mov

Oh Turkey Vulture! Fun fact about this guy is his stomach acid is one of the most corrosive substances in the world (moreso than battery acid.) This is so they don’t spread things like botulism and anthrax from the dead things they eat. https://blossom.primal.net/4ee57530bef589fcb8a30775ef3358f29927b659fe0242c58ddbd3e8eccfade2.mov

Alright Nostr this sun as bright AF and I can barely see my screen. I will zap and respond to all these notifications later. Here we have sea anemones in a tide pool. Unlike humans sea anemones do not experience "senescence”. Their cells do not deteriorate over time. Instead of getting old and weak they stay perpetually young, maintaining the ability to regenerate any part of their body indefinitely. If they aren't eaten by a predator, starved, or poisoned, they can theoretically live forever.

Alright Nostr you’re on this walk with me because my friends bailed on me today - apparently they have 9-5’s or lives or whatever. This is the Great Blue Heron. They do not have teeth so they swallow their prey whole. They are ambitious hunters and are often found dead, choked on their kill. This one’s still standing so he must be a good judge of prey.

I’m doing it again Nostr. This walk won’t be accessible to me for the rest of the month (only a few days) and some months not at all. 6 miles to go. Look at that psychedelic purple orb on my photo, I’m used to seeing the green ones but today’s camera glitch is special. 💜

I want to zap generously and not have to evaluate who I’m zapping so I just muted like 40 accounts that do not follow me but comment on everything I post, post zero content of their own and have less than 40 followers. I have to assume they are multiple NPUBs by the same user created to extract zaps. I want to make sure zaps go to actual npubs not crafty little grifters. I could be wrong and in that case whoops…

GM Nostr What is your morning routine?

I wish I could take you all on my secret beach walk. I’m always shocked not to see anyone, it’s spectacular. It’s 6 miles and can only be accessed at low tide and because of the position of the full moon, sun and earth today is a king tide and the lowest for quite a while. I always see egrets, pelicans, cranes, hawks, and sandpipers. Today I found SEVEN abalone shells. That’s incredible luck.