The sea eating away the beach
June 4 in the United States ⋅ 🌬 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.
June 4 in the United States ⋅ 🌬 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. InRead more
Terns at the Spit
June 4 in the United States ⋅ 🌬 24 °C
The past two weeks, our usual collection of teens was missing at the spit. A few have shown up today.
Intercoastal flats.
June 4 in the United States ⋅ 🌬 24 °C
Maritime Hammock
June 4 in the United States ⋅ 🌬 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
June 4 in the United States ⋅ 🌬 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 orRead more
Ashley Feed: my favorite feed store.
June 4 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
Nature creating beauty
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Early sunrise
June 11 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Sun and fog in the forest
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The Pelicans did disappoint
June 11 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Often, there are many on these pillars of a past sea wall
Eastern Bearch Tiger Beetle
June 11 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 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
June 11 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Why do the trees all bend the same way?
June 11 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Tidal wetlands behind the Dunes
June 11 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
The sea taketh, the sea giveth
June 18 in the United States ⋅ 🌬 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 utilityRead more
Little gem of the beaten track
June 25 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
Sometimes you need some dirt road
July 2 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Purple Martins start staging
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And the sea taketh
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