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Jeff Hollett
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Hiker, backpacker, forager, fisher, gardener, fossil finder, iPhone nature pic taker, nature nerd. Retired. Back home in Newfoundland after many years away. 🇨🇦
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Pics from a recent wilderness #hike. #Newfoundland Canada. #hiking #trail #lichen #fungifriends #moss
Morning light over autumn-coloured larch trees. A large pond in the background. A species of green moss is growing in a bed of bright red Sphagnum moss, Close up of lichen Cetraria islandica. The lichen is brown and consists of long branches with spiked edges. Break time - my tea mug sitting in a mossy forest clearing.
November 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Some lichen pics from a hike on Tuesday.
#Newfoundland Canada.
#hiking #lichens #fungifriends #fungi
Close up of red-tipped Cladonia lichen. Photo of an Ochrolechia lichen. This lichen has a white thallus/body with orange apothecia (orange disks). Photo of a tuft of fluffy-looking Cladonia lichen with bright red blueberry bushes. Photo of red-tipped Cladonia lichens
October 24, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Some pics from a wilderness hike on Friday. #Newfoundland Canada. #lichens #hiking #trail
Photo of a red-tipped Cladonia lichen. Photo of a pink earth lichen. Photo of a red carpet of lowbush blueberry shrubs in front of some evergreen trees. Photo of an orange coloured Porpidia species crustose lichen on rock.
October 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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A recent hike near, and through, a wildfire zone. Newfoundland, Canada.
#hiking #backpacking #wildfire
Photo of a boulder field. Possibly a felsemer. Photo of a colourful species of Sphagnum moss. Photo of a trail through a wildfire zone. The trail bed is still green/unburned. Everything else around is black/burned. Photo of a bog hole with a cracked-mud bottom.
October 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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The Spout. A wave powered geyser on The East Coast Trail, #Newfoundland, Canada. #trail #hikibg #backpackibg
October 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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On a wooded section of the East Coast Trail. The golden, late-day light was kind of special.
Photo of a trail through small coniferous trees. The trail is moss-lined. At the end of the visible trail, the light appears to have a golden glow.
October 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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The ferns are putting on a show these days along many parts of the East Coast Trail. Near Bay Bulls, Newfoundland, Canada. #hiking #trail #backpacking
Photo of a low-shrub landscape with a river of colourful ferns running through it. Photo of stairs on a trail, lined by colourful ferns. Photo of a girls of colourful ferns - yellow, green, orange colours. Photo of a coastline dotted with patches of colourful ferns.
September 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Trail food. Newfoundland, Canada.
Photo of two cooked trout and a croissant filled with lingonberry jam + a cup of tea. The food is sitting in a flat rock. There is wilderness in the background. Photo of 6 small mounds of picked berries of various colours…blue, black, red. Pic of a hand holding several types of berries. Photo of fresh made lingonberry jam on a croissant.
September 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Some little life photos from a backpacking trek this week. Newfoundland, Canada.
Photo of several pitchers from a purple pitcher plant. Photo of a red-tipped Cladonia lichen. Photo of layered rock slabs partially covered in orange Porpidia lichens. Photo of bright red lingonberries growing among club mosses and Cladonia lichen.
September 12, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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A beautiful orange rock posy lichen (Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca), from my time in Yellowknife, NT, Canada. #lichen #fungifriends
Photo of a lichen growing flat on the surface of rock. The lichen is oval in shape and cream coloured with orange discs (apothecia) dotted mainly around is outside edge.
September 1, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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It’s the start of harvest season here at Logy Bay Farms (our back yard). A wonderful time of year.
Photo of just-harvested vegetables including cabbage, onion, beet, green beans, peas, tomato and rutabaga.
August 31, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Pics from an East Coast Trail hike yesterday. This 330+ km trail system is a stunner. Newfoundland, Canada. #hiking #backpacking #trail #newfoundland
Photo of a small beach surrounded by high cliffs capped by coniferous trees. Photo of a peninsula jutting out into the North Atlantic. The peninsula is rocky near the ocean and covered with evergreen trees at higher elevations. Photo of a portion of a seaside trail. The ground surface includes sections of exposed bedrock interspersed with bright red lowbush blueberry plants. Photo of steep seaside cliffs.
August 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Caloplaca sp. #lichen. On coastal cliffs, Newfoundland, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends
Photo of two bright yellow, round lichens on rock.
August 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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A bog full of cottongrass. From a #hike at #Newfoundland, Canada. #wildflower #backpacking.
Photo of a bog covered in bright white cotton grass.
August 16, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Canada continues to burn. Pic from today at my home town. Six communities evacuated so far as a result of this fire. #newfoundland, Canada.
Photo of wildfire smoke billowing upward.
August 6, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Love trees covered in long strings of Usnea #lichen. #Newfoundland, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends
Photo of a tree covered in whitish strings of Usnea lichen.
August 1, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Porpidia sp #lichen, a common lichen on boulders here in #Newfoundland, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends
Close up photo of an orange crustose lichen covered in black disk-shaped apothecia.
July 31, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Purple pitcher plant…super common here in Newfoundland, but always eye-catching.
Photo of the pitcher from a purple pitcher plant.
July 28, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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While cloudberry picking, this morning. I’ve always loved the colours of a bog. #berries #bog #hiking
Photo of a bog featuring a large bog hole full of brown mud …and with a small “island” of sphagnum moss in the centre.
July 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Delicious cloudberries are starting to ripen here in #Newfoundland, Canada. #berries #foraging
July 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Wilderness backpacking sunrises. Newfoundland, Canada, last week.
Photo of a wilderness landscape with ocean in the background. It’s just before sunrise and the sky is bright orange. Fog is rising from several ponds. The land is a mix of barrens and coniferous forest.
July 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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The coastline at my hometown, this week. Newfoundland, Canada.
Photo of ocean and coastline. There’s a large patch of daisy-like flowers in the foreground
July 13, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Wind/salt swept coastal coniferous trees. Newfoundland, Canada.
Photo of coniferous grove where most of the branches are dead and light grey.
July 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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A huge patch of beautifully scented twinflower. #newfoundland Canada.
#flower #wildflower #hiking
Photo of a huge patch of tiny pink flowers
July 2, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Early morning cod #fishing from the cliffs. #Newfoundland, Canada.
Photo of a man fishing in the ocean while standing on seaside rocks. The sun is rising in the background. Photo of several codfish on rocks Photo of seaside cliffs and forest Photo looking out at the ocean. The sky includes a band of deep orange from the soon-to-be-rising sun.
June 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM