And the sea taketh
23. juli, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
Purple Martins start staging
2. juli, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
Sometimes you need some dirt road
2. juli, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Little gem of the beaten track
25. juni, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
The sea taketh, the sea giveth
18. juni, Forente 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 utilityLes mer
Tidal wetlands behind the Dunes
11. juni, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Why do the trees all bend the same way?
11. juni, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Palms adapting to the vanishing sea
11. juni, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Eastern Bearch Tiger Beetle
11. juni, Forente 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.
The Pelicans did disappoint
11. juni, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Often, there are many on these pillars of a past sea wall
Sun and fog in the forest
11. juni, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Early sunrise
11. juni, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Nature creating beauty
4. juni, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Ashley Feed: my favorite feed store.
4. juni, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
Dunes walking over the Road
4. juni, Forente 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 orLes mer
Maritime Hammock
4. juni, Forente 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.
Intercoastal flats.
4. juni, Forente stater ⋅ 🌬 24 °C
Terns at the Spit
4. juni, Forente stater ⋅ 🌬 24 °C
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.
4. juni, Forente 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. InLes mer
The sea eating away the beach
4. juni, Forente 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.
Mother Nature creating her art.
28. mai, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
Horseshoe crab with a lot of barnacles
21. mai, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
Most of the time I do t see that many on them.
Long stretches of beach without anybody
21. mai, Forente stater ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
Blue crab on the beach (dead)
21. mai, Forente stater ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
Natural Beach Art
21. mai, Forente stater ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C