Christmas in Maine

Melissa and I spent Christmas in Maine with her family. We had a really good trip, with pretty good weather. There was snow on the ground, but the roads were clear.

Here is a link to some more photos from our trip.

http://picasaweb.google.com/stevecallen1/MaineChristmas2007?authkey=Uo9QQc02he8

Mattamuskeet

I went on a class field trip to Hyde County to observe wildlife. We saw 17 deer in about three hours on the stand we were in. One other group said they saw black bears, another group said they saw red wolves. Below is a link to more photos. Some of them are kinda graphic, showing a harvested deer being processed.

http://picasaweb.google.com/stevecallen1/MattamuskeetVentures?authkey=14uyHIIHCXk

Weymouth Woods

My Principles of Wildlife Science class took a trip to Weymouth Woods to see the mature pine forest habitat that the red-cockaded woodpecker prefers.
We didn't see any RCWs, but we saw salamanders, a beaver dam, the various stages of the successional pine forests and a fox squirrel.

http://picasaweb.google.com/stevecallen1/WeymouthWoods?authkey=S6t7sPnX64M

Mount Rogers

Melissa and I took the dogs camping in the Mount Rogers National Recreation area. We camped one night in the Beartree campground and got seriously rained out. The next morning we packed up and drove over to the Appalachian Trail and did some hiking. We got locked in the parking lot when the visitors center closed but I drove around the fence on the side of the road and we got out. We ran into a guy who was hiking the entire AT so we took him into town and he got some pizza and Pepsi after his 20-mile hike in the rain.

Here's a link to some more pictures from our trip.
http://picasaweb.google.com/stevecallen1/MountRogers?authkey=3R7ap5csFss

At the beach

4th of July

We got back today from our annual 4th of July trip to the beach with Kim, Jamie, Tommy, Tyler and Daddy. Sunburned again! We used sunscreen but not quite enough. We had a great time and took a lot of pictures.

here's a link to our web album with some of the pictures.
http://picasaweb.google.com/stevecallen1/Beach0604?authkey=P6MZKGJHTyw

CCI photos

Here is a link to the web album I have with some of my pictures from CCI.

http://picasaweb.google.com/stevecallen1/CCIAnimals

Camping trip

We had a great time camping with John and Jackie in the Smoky Mountains. The synchronouse lightning bugs were amazing. I wasn't able to get a picture of the lightning bugs but I did figure out how to get pretty cool waterfall pictures.

Here's a link to the web photo album
http://picasaweb.google.com/stevecallen1/SmokyMountains?authkey=76CWT8df1PA

Camping weekend

We're going camping this weekend with our friends John and Jackie at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. We've never been to the Smokies so we're excited. No pets are allowed on most of the trails so we'll be camping without Baxter and Alaska.

http://www.nps.gov/grsm/

First post

This is the first post for our new blog.

Duckling