Sable Island Institute

CONGRATULATIONS to the winners of
our 2025 Trip to Sable Island fundraising raffle!
1st prize (2 seats on trip): Claire Hilchie
2nd prize (1 seat on trip): Shawna Finley
3rd prize ($ 1000 cash): Catherine Courtney
And many thanks to everyone who purchased tickets!
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2/2: … He was shown in an earlier post shaking the sand out of his mane after this roll.
Photo Zoe Lucas. #sableislandnpr #parkscanada #sableislandnationalparkreserve
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Choosing a Spot (1/2🧵)
Two #SableIsland stallions at a rolling-rubbing site. The dark brown horse has just risen after having a roll, and the bay is sniffing and checking out the patch before getting down for some vigorous rolling and wriggling in the loose sand. … #wildhorses #wildhorsesofSable

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For more about #SableIsland, visit our website.
The Sable Island Institute is a not-for-profit and a registered charity. Its ecological research includes study of the horses’ habitat for a better understanding of their life history on Sable Island ….. #wildhorses #wildhorsesofSable

Sand Everywhere (1/3🧵) 🌎 #SableIslandwx #NSwx
Yesterday was sunny, with a max temp of 20.7°C and a refreshing southwesterly gusting to 21-25 kts. After rolling on a bare patch of ground near a freshwater pond, a #SableIsland stallion is shaking the sand out of his long, thick mane. Photo Zoe Lucas…

2/2: … #ParksCanada relies on #Starlink for #internet. Service was soon restored for most users (including the SINPR), but the burst of excitement seemed to be reflected in yesterday’s sunset.
Photo Zoe Lucas. #sableislandnpr #NorthAtlantic
For more about #SableIsland: sableislandinstitute.org

Connectivity. Yesterday, #SpaceX’s Starlink, a #satelliteinternet provider, suffered numerous international #outages. The news indicated that an internal software failure knocked tens of thousands of users offline. One of those users was the #SableIslandNationalParkReserve. (1/2🧵) ….

4/4: …. Photo Zoe Lucas.
#biodiversity #sableislandnpr #parkscanada #sableislandnationalparkreserve
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3/4: … remains of several limbs. Another type is drift lumber (e.g., wood from #shipwrecks, collapsed buildings & piers, lost cargo & dunnage). Both types can be washed into the ocean during storms, long-term coastal erosion, & other natural processes, & some ends up #adrift due to human activities.

2/4: …such shipworms & barnacles. When #washedashore it can also become #habitat for birds, invertebrates, & plants, & by catching windblown sand, driftwood & associated plants can initiate new dunes.
Much driftwood is parts of trees (trunks, branches, roots) such as this large tree trunk with the…

Tree Trunk on the Spit (1/4🧵) 🌎🌿🦑
#SableIsland #NorthAtlantic #treetrunk
There are hundreds of visible pieces of #driftwood on West Spit (& many hundreds more buried). While floating in the ocean, driftwood provides habitat, shelter &/or foraging sites for birds, fish & other marine animal species…

Sable Island Sunset.
Last night, a view from the top of a high north beach dune. It was cooler yesterday with max temp 19.6°C. The wind was picking up & gusting to 22 kts SE.
Photo Zoe Lucas.
#SableIsland #NorthAtlantic
#sunset #SableIslandwx #NSwx
#sableislandnpr #parkscanada

3/3: …. structural support and bracing in a wooden ship, such as connecting deck beams to the hull. Some were made from the wood found in a natural crook or bend in a tree, especially in roots.
Photo Zoe Lucas.
#Shipwreck #buriedinsand #archeology #parkscanada
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2/3: ….It had been mostly buried, but with the wind reshaping and shifting the landscape, the timbers and iron were exposed. The remains of several ship's knees were visible. This one is split and broken, but the distinctive shape is there. A ship’s knee was an angled piece of wood that provided...

A Ship’s Knee (1/3🧵) 🚢 #SableIsland #shipsknee #NorthAtlantic #GraveyardoftheAtlantic #Maritimehistory
A detail of the section of shipwreck shown earlier (see bsky.app/profile/sabl...)
This wreckage is on Sable Island’s south beach at the base of a high dune.….

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4/4: … The Sable Island Institute is a not-for-profit & a registered charity. As we develop our long-term ecological program, monitoring the status of several invasive species of concern such as #Rosarugosa will be a priority. To support our work, please consider a donation.
Thanks!

3/4: … & mostly occurs in a few sites associated with human activity where long ago it would have been planted as an ornamental.
Photo Zoe Lucas.
#invasivespecies #biodiversity #sableislandnpr #parkscanada #sableislandnationalparkreserve ….
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2/4: …The other, shown here, is rugosa rose or #beachrose (Rosa rugosa). It is native to eastern Asia where it grows in coastal areas, often on sand dunes. It has become naturalized in other continents where it was introduced, & is considered an invasive. This rose is not widespread on #SableIsland…

Roses in Bloom (1/4🧵) 🌎🌿 #flora #botany
There are 2 #rose species on #SableIsland, & both are flowering now. One is common wild rose (Rosa virginiana), native to eastern North America, & abundant on the island where it provides forage for horses & resources for Sable’s bees & many other insects….

Donate - Sable Island Institute Our work depends on people who care about Sable Island. Your contribution will directly support the purposes and programs of the Institute. Choose your own donation amount below. All financial contrib...

3/3: … The Sable Island Institute is a not-for-profit and a registered charity. Its ecological research includes study of the horses’ habitat for a better understanding of their life history on Sable Island.
To support our work, please consider a donation, sableislandinstitute.org/about-sable....

2/3: ….five males, & they have the green valley – richly vegetated with marram, beach pea, yarrow, cordgrass, & wild rose - all to themselves. (Photo Zoe Lucas) #wildhorses #wildhorsesofSable #sableislandnpr #parkscanada #sableislandnationalparkreserve
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Sable Island Socializing (1/3🧵) 🌎🌿 #SableIslandwx #NSwx
Yesterday was a sunny, blue-sky day with a max temp 21.7°C & a SW breeze mostly between 5 - 10 kts. In a valley field towards the west end of the island, two males, a chestnut & a younger bay, are socializing. They are with a group of …

2/2: …presently available – the image was #scanned from a 35mm slide, the date is on the slide, the slide is in Halifax.) Overnight #seaice had #washedashore along the full length of north beach. The beach was impassable (by vehicle) except at low tide.
Photo Zoe Lucas. #sableislandnpr #parkscanada

Thinking of Cooler Days on Sable Island (1/2🧵) #NorthAtlantic #SableIslandwx #NSwx #winter
The fog cleared off for a while today, but it was mostly humid and warm (second warmest this month), with a few bursts of heavy rain.
This photo was taken during January or February in the 1990s (Date not ….

Our 2025 Sable Island Institute Fundraising Raffle Join thousands of community organizations - big and small - who raise more funds for their worthy causes with Rafflebox.

Draw: August 20th, 2025
Trip date: September 23rd (rain date 24th)
This is a fundraising raffle for the Sable Island Institute, a registered charity.
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Our 2025 Sable Island Institute Fundraising Raffle Join thousands of community organizations - big and small - who raise more funds for their worthy causes with Rafflebox.

There are three prizes:
1st prize: 2 seats on the trip
2nd prize: 1 seat on the trip
3rd Prize: $1,000 cash
Raffle tickets are $25 each
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Our 2025 Sable Island Institute Fundraising Raffle Join thousands of community organizations - big and small - who raise more funds for their worthy causes with Rafflebox.

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2/2: … a large section was free of the slope. This is one of several sites where fragments & sections of wrecked wooden vessels were reported & are now being investigated by Parks Canada’s archaeological team.
Photos Zoe Lucas. #sableislandnpr #buriedinsand #Maritimehistory #SableIsland

Sable Island Shipwreck (1/2🧵) 🚢 #NorthAtlantic #GraveyardoftheAtlantic #Shipwreck #archeology #parkscanada
Since the early 1990s, parts of wreckage were occasionally visible at the base of a high dune along the south beach. As the dune retreated, more of the timber & iron was exposed, & eventually …