3/3:… This is what is looked like in early November: www.facebook.com/share/v/1Jnf...
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2/3: … With less water on the beach & lighter winds, the flow looks less like turbulent rapids & more like a gently rippling stream. For now, until the next storm. #storm #beachflooding
Photos Zoe Lucas. …

4/4: … the freshwater ponds near West Light.
The second photo shows horses gathered in the West Spit waterhole area. #sableislandnpr #parkscanada
Photos Zoe Lucas.
For more about Sable Island: sableislandinstitute.org

3/4: …Although marram & beach pea are primary forages for the horses, they feed on many other plants.
The first photo shows horses (28 visible) grazing in the broad grassy fields on the West Spit. Depending on the season, they can drink at the waterhole area on the spit or trek eastward to …

2/4: … hollows providing habitat for violets, orchids, & cranberry, low rolling hills covered with juniper, crowberry, bayberry, & wild rose, & fields of marram grass with beach pea, seaside goldenrod, & aster. There are >150 plant species on the island, including numerous other grasses. …

2/2: …pick up & there was barely a ripple on surface of the south beach floodwater.
This area of beach is west of the West Light area, & the #lighttower is just barely visible, as slim as a needle, on the distant dune line.
Photo Zoe Lucas. #sableislandnpr #parkscanada
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2/2:… very high winds of the past 2 weeks, some interesting features have appeared.
In the distance, a single horse is silhouetted against the bald dune’s slope. In the absence of trees & structures, the horses are often the only clue to appreciating the scale of Sable’s landscape.
Photo Zoe Lucas

4/4: … with the response of the rusty, sandblasted metal, storm waves washed over the berm & the carrier was surrounded by ocean floodwater on the south beach.
Photos Zoe Lucas. #rosemorrisonmusic #SableIsland #floodedbeach
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3/4:….formerly done by horses.
When the vehicle eventually broke down near West Light, it was too heavy to move & became a landmark. For some years, filled with windblown sand, it had provided a sheltered habitat for a few nesting birds.
A week after Rose knelt & leaned in to hear & hum in harmony..

2/4: …on the rusted & half-buried remains of a Bren Gun Carrier – a lightly armoured, tracked vehicle used during World War II. It was not in service on Sable during the war, but was brought to the island in the late 1940s, & used to haul wagons & lifeboats, & move heavy loads, to speed up work…

4/4: …The Sable Island Institute is a not-for-profit & a registered charity. As part of our environmental monitoring program, we conduct regular surveys for beached seabirds (oiling, entanglement, or disease) & plastic debris. To support our work, please consider a donation.
Thank you!

3/4: …Even their last recorded peak pup production on Sable, in 1989, was only 625, compared with recent Grey Seal pup counts of 70,000. Various factors are likely responsible for the decline of the Harbour population here, including competition with Grey Seals and predation.
Photo Zoe Lucas….

2/4: …The seal noticed the surveyor but appeared to be more interested in something happening at the shoreline where some Grey Seals were hauled out.
Six Harbour Seals, including two pups, were sighted on the island this year. Sable’s Harbour Seals are greatly outnumbered by Grey Seals….

2/2: …are still green, the grass is turning golden yellow.
The horses’ coats have become thicker for winter.
Photo Zoe Lucas. #autumn #coloursofautumn
#wildhorses #wildhorsesofSable
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2/2: …a complete arc that persisted for about 10 minutes - as if in celebration of the appreciation & protection of beaches & dune systems here & along the coasts of mainland #NovaScotia and #CapeBreton.
Photo Zoe Lucas.
#savewestmaboubeach
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3/3: … Before beginning her arts residency on Sable Island, Rose Morrison co-wrote with Dave Gunning a song about a beach in Cape Breton, “Holding Sand”.
To hear the song: soundbox.lnk.to/holdingsand
Photo Zoe Lucas.
#artistinresidence #music #sciart
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