The sea eating away the beach
4. juni, Forenede Stater ⋅ 🌬 23 °C
Part of the beach we survey for turtle nests is slowly but very surely eaten away. Today the wind is considerable and the waves are doing what they do best.
The gap is closed for now.
4. juni, Forenede Stater ⋅ 🌬 23 °C
The beach ecosystem is so dynamic. The stream reaching the beach is ephemeral in that it comes to a still and the sea fill the gap and the plants take over n their normal sequence of colonization. InLæs mere
Terns at the Spit
4. juni, Forenede Stater ⋅ 🌬 24 °C
The past two weeks, our usual collection of teens was missing at the spit. A few have shown up today.
Intercoastal flats.
4. juni, Forenede Stater ⋅ 🌬 24 °C
Maritime Hammock
4. juni, Forenede Stater ⋅ 🌬 24 °C
In the maritime hammock, plant life is geared toward surviving in a relative harsh climate and environment with higher levels of salt then elsewhere and relative dry.
Dunes walking over the Road
4. juni, Forenede Stater ⋅ 🌬 24 °C
Dunes walk. The dominant wind at one side picks up the sand and then deposits it on the back side. And they don’t care if we humans have made a road. They will just cross it without looking left orLæs mere
Ashley Feed: my favorite feed store.
4. juni, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
Nature creating beauty
4. juni, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Early sunrise
11. juni, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Sun and fog in the forest
11. juni, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
The Pelicans did disappoint
11. juni, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Often, there are many on these pillars of a past sea wall
Eastern Bearch Tiger Beetle
11. juni, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Beach Tiger Beetles as the name indicates are beach specialists. I’ve found several species on the beaches here. This is the Eastern Beach Tiger Beetle. I think they are cute.
Palms adapting to the vanishing sea
11. juni, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Why do the trees all bend the same way?
11. juni, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Tidal wetlands behind the Dunes
11. juni, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
The sea taketh, the sea giveth
18. juni, Forenede Stater ⋅ 🌬 28 °C
Today it struck me how much the sea had taken next to the house. In the past there was a road her where the sea is now and it’s still eating away just where the road ends now. Soon the last utilityLæs mere
Little gem of the beaten track
25. juni, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
Sometimes you need some dirt road
2. juli, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Purple Martins start staging
2. juli, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
And the sea taketh
23. juli, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
