The sea eating away the beach
4 juni, Verenigde Staten ⋅ 🌬 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, Verenigde Staten ⋅ 🌬 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. InMeer informatie
Terns at the Spit
4 juni, Verenigde Staten ⋅ 🌬 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, Verenigde Staten ⋅ 🌬 24 °C
Maritime Hammock
4 juni, Verenigde Staten ⋅ 🌬 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, Verenigde Staten ⋅ 🌬 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 orMeer informatie
Ashley Feed: my favorite feed store.
4 juni, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
Nature creating beauty
4 juni, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Early sunrise
11 juni, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Sun and fog in the forest
11 juni, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
The Pelicans did disappoint
11 juni, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Often, there are many on these pillars of a past sea wall
Eastern Bearch Tiger Beetle
11 juni, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 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, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Why do the trees all bend the same way?
11 juni, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Tidal wetlands behind the Dunes
11 juni, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
The sea taketh, the sea giveth
18 juni, Verenigde Staten ⋅ 🌬 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 utilityMeer informatie
Little gem of the beaten track
25 juni, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
Sometimes you need some dirt road
2 juli, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Purple Martins start staging
2 juli, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
And the sea taketh
23 juli, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
