And so are we.
The sky cleared overnight, and the temperatures dropped; we saw 39 F on our deck thermometer this morning. I actually wore long pants to the beach.
As you can see by comparing
yesterday's pictures to today's, as I expected, the excess water drained back out of the Bay once the strong south winds stopped blowing, leaving a large wrack line up against the base of the dunes, and a second line in the surf.
This picture shows how much sand we lost, as in places, the waves were digging into the base of the sand dunes.
The usual suspects. This may be the first picture I've ever taken of a Great Blue Heron where the crest is visible.
We saw only a single Osprey off in the distance. One of the summer residents still hanging around, or a migrant from farther north on it's way south?
Georgia spotted this in the clay layer at the very base of the cliff.
A nice vertebrae once we got it cleaned. Fossil hunting was slow, though, only two small teeth apiece, although one of Georgia's was a fairly rare
I even found a butterfly, this somewhat worse-for wear Common Buckeye in the dunes.
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