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Jeff Hollett

@jeffontherock.bsky.social

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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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Jeff Hollett @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks, Martha! I thought so too:)

Jeff Hollett @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 4d

Beautifu! Trichia scabra, I assume?

Jeff Hollett @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 4d

The Spout. A wave powered geyser on The East Coast Trail, #Newfoundland, Canada. #trail #hikibg #backpackibg

Jeff Hollett @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 4d

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.

Jeff Hollett @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 19d

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.

Jeff Hollett @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks! I love the colours, shapes and textures of barrens and bogs.

Jeff Hollett @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 24d

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.

Jeff Hollett @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 24d

Me too! I made jam with them while on my trek.

Jeff Hollett @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 24d

Thanks! Yes that one really caught my eye.

Jeff Hollett @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 24d

Thanks, Martha! It was a fun trip.

Jeff Hollett @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 24d

Thanks! It’s a lovely bit of wilderness.

Jeff Hollett @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 27d

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.

Jeff Hollett @jeffontherock.bsky.social · Sep 6

Yes, through hiking is common for this system.

Jeff Hollett @jeffontherock.bsky.social · Sep 1

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.

Jeff Hollett @jeffontherock.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thank you! Pretty happy with this year’s garden.

Jeff Hollett @jeffontherock.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thanks, Martha! We’ve had an unusually hot summer here…the veggies loved it:)

Jeff Hollett @jeffontherock.bsky.social · Aug 31

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.

Jeff Hollett @jeffontherock.bsky.social · Aug 26

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.

Jeff Hollett @jeffontherock.bsky.social · Aug 17

Caloplaca sp. #lichen. On coastal cliffs, Newfoundland, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends

Photo of two bright yellow, round lichens on rock.

Jeff Hollett @jeffontherock.bsky.social · Aug 16

A bog full of cottongrass. From a #hike at #Newfoundland, Canada. #wildflower #backpacking.

Photo of a bog covered in bright white cotton grass.

Jeff Hollett @jeffontherock.bsky.social · Aug 13

Thanks, Martha. Many homes lost, but so far all are safe!

Jeff Hollett @jeffontherock.bsky.social · Aug 13

Thanks, Stephanie. The fire is still raging through community after community, but so far all are safe!

Jeff Hollett @jeffontherock.bsky.social · Aug 13

Thanks, Toby. The fire is still raging, thanks to our extreme hot/dry conditions. But no lives lost, which is the main thing.

Jeff Hollett @jeffontherock.bsky.social · Aug 13

It’s a crazy time. We were evacuated Aug 4. And any return is a long way off.

Jeff Hollett @jeffontherock.bsky.social · Aug 11

Thanks, Martha! Super common here but always eye catching.