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