Birds on the Beach- Sanibel Island Lighthouse Park

Ruddy Turnstone

Snowy Plover

Snowy Plover

Great Black-backed Gull

Red Knot

A bonanza of sea life washed onto the Sanibel beaches after gale force winds and multiple days of rain.

-Tom

Sanibel Island Lighthouse and Point Ybel

After two days of constant rain, which some some parts of southwest Florida receive nearly four inches of rain, and then a day of cloudy and cold conditions, my last day on Sanibel proved to be perfect weather.  My Mom and I left Bonita Springs, where her and I my dad are renting a place for a few months, at 6:15, driving across the Sanibel causeway just as the sun was rising.  What a spectacular drive it was!  Our first stop on the island was Lighthouse Park, where I gladly put eight dollars into the parking ticket machine in return two hours of shelling, birding and photography.

There are very few views like this in southwest Florida.  Sanibel is a throwback to simpler times, for sure.

-Tom

Litchfield Beach South Carolina- A Family Vacation

Thanks for watching! :)

-Tom

Afternoon Snack

Willet, Sanibel Island, March 2008.

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The Fantasy Land of Seabrook Island

The island that Megan, my Mom, my brother, and myself traveled to this weekend for my cousin's wedding really was a fantasy land. A gated, private island, catering to those with more resources than ourselves! Wow, what huge houses there are on this island, built right into the dunes and and around the swales of what once was a pristine, natural area. It is still fairly intact, and the beach there is the only place along the South Carolina shore where sand is actually accumulating. These are images from our walk along the shore Saturday evening. Storms were threatening, so I left the big gun at home (my XTI and bag) and shot these images with Megan's Kodak p850, a very serviceable 5 megapixel super zoom. Take a close look at each photo. There is a life bird for me in one of them, see if you can spot it.