Passamaquoddy Abstracts
July 8, 2013
Deer Island and some smaller islands, viewed from Saint Andrews
Under a slaty summer sky, shoreline and sea are simply surfaces. Objects on the strand lose meaning; they have become abstract forms floating between flat light and milky water. Barnacle shells are empty, the seaweeds fading, transmuted to pale remnants of their former selves. Small ripples slop wearily against moist rocks, too lazy to make a sound. Even the gulls are silent.
Algae and bacteria in a salt marsh channel do their best impression of a Jackson Pollock
Ulva (“sea lettuce”) in a shallow tidal channel
Thinly laminated sandstone bedrock
All of these photos were taken today along the point at the southeastern tip of Saint Andrews, New Brunswick.
© Graham Young, 2013
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Ancient Shore 
Gorgeous photos!
Thank you!
Graham they are all wonderful.
Thank you.
One of our Passamaquoddy friends, Charles Finch, now lives in New Hampshire and one of my Mohegan partner’s Penobscot relatives, Nettie Smith was a Sachem from Deer Island.
So glad that you did this. What a small world~
Interesting. Was that Deer Island, NB, or Deer Isle, Maine? They are both lovely places, anyway! Just wondering, because the latter is in the Penobscot area.
I’m now a reporter with the Winnipeg Free Press, actually looking for you about a story on Manitoba beaches, when I found this entry. I grew up in St. Andrews and spent many happy hours with my mother on the shore. Have you been to Oven Head? It was one of our favorite haunts. Thank you for bringing back some happy memories. Alexandra Paul
Hi Alexandra, that’s interesting; I wasn’t aware that you are from here. I have never made it to Oven Head, though I have driven past the signs for “Oven Head Smokers” many times over the years!