But still pretty warm. Actually pretty good weather for a walk. Enough breeze to keep you reasonably cool, but not enough to blow off a hat. Not the best light for photography, though.
Time for a little cooling dip!
Much better! Now give me a treat!
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Yucca plant in bloom, up at the top of the dune crest. I was surprised to find that Yucca are native to this area. I thought they were strictly a western desert plant that had escaped cultivation in this area, but in fact, there are Yucca native to the Atlantic coast.
Yucca have interesting sex habits:
Yuccas have a very specialized, mutualistic pollination system, being pollinated by yucca moths (family Prodoxidae); the insect purposefully transfers the pollen from the stamens of one plant to the stigma of another, and at the same time lays an egg in the flower; the moth larva then feeds on some of the developing seeds, always leaving enough seed to perpetuate the species.
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