Come to dinner....

A view down the pitcher of a pitcher plant in a bog in Massachusetts. The last view of many flies, mosquitoes and possibly baby chipmunks given its size!

After days of finding mind-numbing parking lot geocaches we headed for an earthcache - a geological geocache in north eastern Massachusetts. It was a kettle hole lake formed by a chunk of ice broken off a glacier, but left where there were no streams in or out. It forms a stagnant bog, full of spagnum moss and decaying gunk which is low on nutrients, hence we found carnivorous plants such as this pitcher plant and also sundews.

It's a "quaking bog" where the plants, including 10m high black spruce trees, root into a mat of rotten vegetation. If you bounce on this mat, the plants bounce too, it's very weird!

We had a lovely walk listening to birds, including a woodpecker, and Susanna finally saw a chipmunk, so she was very happy :-)