And the sea taketh
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Purple Martins start staging
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Sometimes you need some dirt road
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Little gem of the beaten track
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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 utilityEn savoir plus
Tidal wetlands behind the Dunes
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Why do the trees all bend the same way?
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Palms adapting to the vanishing sea
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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.
The Pelicans did disappoint
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Often, there are many on these pillars of a past sea wall
Sun and fog in the forest
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Early sunrise
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Nature creating beauty
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Ashley Feed: my favorite feed store.
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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 orEn savoir plus
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.
Intercoastal flats.
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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.
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. InEn savoir plus
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.
Mother Nature creating her art.
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Horseshoe crab with a lot of barnacles
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Most of the time I do t see that many on them.
Long stretches of beach without anybody
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Blue crab on the beach (dead)
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Natural Beach Art
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