Late Fall Update
Dec. 6th, 2006 04:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
otterfamilyI know I haven't updated for a while. Not very much to report, really. On the 3rd, I saw an otter for the first time in a month. That's not to say otters haven't been here. I only go to Trinidad every third day now, you see; my opportunities to observe them have been cut by 2/3, so it's no wonder. Anyway, it was Mystery Male the other day, on his own (as usual).
As MM swam by the pier, some piece-of-shit recreational fishermen deliberately tried to catch him with their baited fishing hooks. They weren't locals, of course - it's never anyone in Trinidad who tries to hurt the otters, it's always some stranger who doesn't know that we actually like having the otters here. It's especially troubling to me to see this kind of thing now because we only have two resident otters remaining! I really wish the pier's owners would ban recreational fishing here. The tiny number of people who fish off the pier contribute nothing of substance to the local economy, and what's more, there's no fish to be caught there anyway. No one who's local fishes there. The place is a joke. Everybody here knows that.
That evening before the attempted hooking, however, I had hiked up Trinidad Head to take some panoramic pictures of the bay. Prisoner Rock (foreground) only sees the twilight during this time of year, and I wanted to get a nice picture of that. Fortunately the sunset was truly golden. Trinidad Bay is always beautiful, but this particular evening was exceptional. This is a view of the entire bay, from the town of Trinidad on the left, to Camel Rock and Moonstone Beach at far right:
Off to Trinidad now...
As MM swam by the pier, some piece-of-shit recreational fishermen deliberately tried to catch him with their baited fishing hooks. They weren't locals, of course - it's never anyone in Trinidad who tries to hurt the otters, it's always some stranger who doesn't know that we actually like having the otters here. It's especially troubling to me to see this kind of thing now because we only have two resident otters remaining! I really wish the pier's owners would ban recreational fishing here. The tiny number of people who fish off the pier contribute nothing of substance to the local economy, and what's more, there's no fish to be caught there anyway. No one who's local fishes there. The place is a joke. Everybody here knows that.
That evening before the attempted hooking, however, I had hiked up Trinidad Head to take some panoramic pictures of the bay. Prisoner Rock (foreground) only sees the twilight during this time of year, and I wanted to get a nice picture of that. Fortunately the sunset was truly golden. Trinidad Bay is always beautiful, but this particular evening was exceptional. This is a view of the entire bay, from the town of Trinidad on the left, to Camel Rock and Moonstone Beach at far right:
Off to Trinidad now...
