The sea eating away the beach
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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.
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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. InWeiterlesen
Terns at the Spit
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The past two weeks, our usual collection of teens was missing at the spit. A few have shown up today.
Intercoastal flats.
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Maritime Hammock
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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
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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 orWeiterlesen
Ashley Feed: my favorite feed store.
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Nature creating beauty
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Early sunrise
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Sun and fog in the forest
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The Pelicans did disappoint
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Often, there are many on these pillars of a past sea wall
Eastern Bearch Tiger Beetle
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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
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Why do the trees all bend the same way?
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Tidal wetlands behind the Dunes
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The sea taketh, the sea giveth
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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 utilityWeiterlesen
Little gem of the beaten track
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Sometimes you need some dirt road
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Purple Martins start staging
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And the sea taketh
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