Camping With the Blue Ghost

I don't have a picture of these little guys but we had one float right into camp last night.


These caught our collective eye as we hiked and swam. It made for an interesting installation on the edge of the campsite. Variously, there are bottles, galls, fossil rocks, a gig made with duck tape and a hand forged fork, shell casings, and a driftwood unicorn.

I have always wanted to see a walking fern and now I have. This one grows on a sandstone ledge. The tips of the fronds seek out the ground and will sprout a new plant if things go well.

The fern count for the weekend is 14:


Christmas fern

intermediate wood fern

bracken

lady fern

hay scented fern

horseshoe maidenhair

walking

New York Fern

Rock Cap fern

Royal fern

Climbing fern

maidenhair spleenwort

rattlesnake fern

ebony spleenwort