We drove 16 hours to Florida to spend time with my parents for Christmas. It was a quick trip, we left home on Thursday, Christmas Eve and coming back Sunday. As usual, we have to get out into nature so sunset on Christmas seemed like a good time as any! And it turns out the East Coast Florida girl had never actually seen a Florida ocean sunset. We drove out to Pine Island, Florida to a municipal beach and park, mys sister and nephews in tow. It was only about 20 minutes from my parents and a really cool drive through the marshes to get to the beach. The place was pretty packed when we got there. Guess everyone else had the same idea. There was plenty of room so it didn't really matter.
We immediately saw some cool birds, black skimmers all lined up near the breakwall, like they were on the deck of a carrier. In addition we saw some shorebirds that turned out to be dunlin and ruddy turnstone.
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| Dunlin (Calidris alpina) |
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| Black skimmer in flight |
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| Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) |
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| Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger) |
The beach area was pretty cool. Had a nice little shelter house, a playground, observation deck and even a snack bar. Cost 2 dollars to park at a self pay station. Lots of palm trees. And of course... sunsets.
We drove 16 hours to Florida to spend time with my parents for Christmas. It was a quick trip, we left home on Thursday, Christmas Eve and coming back Sunday. As usual, we have to get out into nature so sunset on Christmas seemed like a good time as any! And it turns out the East Coast Florida girl had never actually seen a Florida ocean sunset. We drove out to Pine Island, Florida to a municipal beach and park, mys sister and nephews in tow. It was only about 20 minutes from my parents and a really cool drive through the marshes to get to the beach. The place was pretty packed when we got there. Guess everyone else had the same idea. There was plenty of room so it didn't really matter.
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