Diary of the Port Biologist

The Marshall family finds themselves in a wondrous world where the soils are 65 percent gravelly sand and 35 percent biochar, and the water begins its journey looking vaguely like coffee and ends it…well, looking like water.

Three adorable goslings and their protective parents waddle to a more suitable home across the street.

A pair of osprey, also known as seahawks, make their nest and raise their young atop a light pole in a Port rail yard.