After a storm the beach holds many treasures...........
Injured Gannet
One of the first digital photos I ever took, camera was a nikon coolpix 990, cost me a grand and only had 3 mega pix!
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Late Afternoon
"Mother Nature's Panties"
Assateague "Lava"
Welck Pot, the horseshoe crab is bait, the roap keeps the Welck from getting out.
"We have landed on the planet"
Deceased Loggerhead......beautiful colors even dead.
"Tidal Pool"
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A rare full wash over Thanksgiving day.
Thanksgiving day 2006 Nor'Easter.......Like the sign says at the OSV entrance :"Beach may be impassable at high tide"
...no fish for me today but i did enjoy watchin 2 gulls harrass "ole baldy"....he wasn't takin any crap from em though and stood his ground till he saw me with the camera...
Wild Assateague horses.
morning light hits the forest beneath my feet
From the south end looking north.
Abandoned fox den.
Exposed root structure after a storm.
The forest of the Assateague Indians.....is exposed like this only once every couple decades.
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In back of the dunes after an extremely high tide/wash-over the level of the water is easy to read....it was deep!
Can you feel the wind?
Sea Oats
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South end of the island......rather unfriendly compaired to the beggars up on Bayberry Drive.
Looking into Assateague Island Virginia from the Maryland side.
Photo taken a couple miles down into Virginia from the top of the beach dunes which are very high. Very cold that day, that's ice there!
Pieces of wrecked ships are often found after a storm, this one looked like a turkey drumstick.
whale of a sunrise............
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Bill Purnell's oyster guard house on Popes Island.
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Storm washover.
This sunrise speaks for itself.
Given the right conditions money comes to the surface and is quite plentiful, picked up more than 13 dollars one day in December 2009.
Huge piece of a wrecked ship.
The Bridge to The Old Bunting Lodge has collapsed. Walking the rails was beyond my interest, especially with 2 cameras around my neck.....
Deep on the backside of the island.
The Bunting Hunting Lodge.
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Aug 8 2010 6:43 am early morning is when light turns the boring into beautiful.
Sea Oats soaking up the morning fog........sea oats are a protected species but not indangered, there are a few plants on the Maryland side of Assateague but quite a few more on the Virginia side.
