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<\/a>Preparing the tender, IO, named for one of Jupiter’s moons.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n The park occupies a large portion of the island and offers several miles of woodland trails with onward connections to quiet country roads. The hilly, rocky terrain is deeply forested with immense ancient Redcedars and Bigleaf Maples. Multi-formed Madronas thrive on rocky shoreline hills, leaning out like littoral voyeurs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>Woodland trail in the Stuart Island Marine Park<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n Everything now appears in bloom, and the shadowy forest floor lights up with inflorescence. Tree trunks rise straight and bare to a high flung canopy that filters the sky, containing serenity within.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>Pinks – Dianthus<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li> ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jupitersway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FGW05812.jpeg?resize=732%2C1024&ssl=1\")
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<\/a>Aaron’s Beard – St. John’s Wort<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul> Ornamental perennials planted by homesteaders now run wild in the woods.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n There are sundry points of interest along our rustic path, including the community’s tiny historic school house, now a library, adjacent to the one room “Teacherage” where enlisted educators resided, now an evocative micro-museum. There is a grass field airstrip so steep and narrow as to prohibit all but the most adept pilots wearing sure-footed leggy aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>The Old Schoolhouse and Teacherage<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li> ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jupitersway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FGW05816-1.jpeg?resize=740%2C1035&ssl=1\")
<\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>Willis Maxfield, an early homesteader on the island, was known to simply add another pair of overalls atop his old ones when they became too worn out. Although a recluse, he helped build the little schoolhouse in 1904.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jupitersway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FGW05825.jpeg?resize=740%2C471&ssl=1\")
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<\/figure>\nBest of all, and three and a half miles distant from our trailhead, is the Turn Point Light Station<\/a>. The now automated light and fog signals are sighted to guide mariners, but also to keep a weather eye trained on our country’s turbulent water border using a robust array of video cameras and sensors.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>Turn Point’s many eyes are on Jupiter as we round the headland.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jupitersway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FGW05841.jpeg?resize=740%2C416&ssl=1\")
<\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>A small US Coast Guard vessel doggedly patrols abyssal Boundary Pass below the light while a<\/em><\/em> freighter passes in Canadian waters.<\/em><\/em> Stuart Island was a major transit point for Canadian liquor during prohibition.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n “Walking away the hasty morning dew, mossy stone-stepping gloom with skies crowded with mistakes of our making, we squandered them a second time, tempered with bitterness, insouciance, and the sea-ware of sorcery soured, making charts for no one’s compass rose. Is it now the seasoned few who recover odes of predilection for destinations of archipelagos and oceans dirempt? They have had their visions.”<\/p>Virginia Woolf ~ To The Lighthouse<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nJupiter’s Jentacular Eggs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\nHeat the oven to 350\u00b0. Blanch a small bunch of fresh spinach until tender, drain and squeeze out water. Chop a cooked sausage or two into small pieces, and the spinach, a handful of chives and any tender veggies. Whisk several eggs together with a little cream and season well with salt, pepper, smoked paprika and sriracha or other warming sauce to taste. Grate sharp cheddar, preferably smoked.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Stir the spinach into the egg mixture along with half the grated cheese. Fill well-greased or non-stick muffin cups half full with chopped sausage, chives and veggies then ladle egg mixture into each cup until nearly full. Top with remaining grated cheese.
Bake until puffed and golden, about twenty-five minutes. Eggs will begin to settle as soon as they leave the oven, but they keep well for several days, easily reheated. Serve with fresh micro-greens drizzled with balsamic vinegar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jupitersway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FGW05821.jpeg?resize=740%2C494&ssl=1\")
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