With most businesses closed and tourists staying home, April 2020 was a perfect month for quiet exploration of our salt marsh. From spectacular sunrises to the amazing wildlife of the area, we have plenty of natural beauty just outside our window.
These photos are taken either from my house on the salt marsh, inside Huntington Beach State Park, or in the town of Murrells Inlet South Carolina.
Note that you can click on the photo to bring a full screen view to your device.
Enjoy
![An anhinga and his red-winged blackbird buddy](https://dkwall.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Anhinga-Redwing-Blackbird—2020-05-01-1024x683.jpg)
![Red-winged blackbird](https://dkwall.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Red-Winged-Blackbird—2020-05-01-1024x683.jpg)
![A great egret coming in for a landing](https://dkwall.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Great-Egret-Flying—2020-04-27-1024x683.jpg)
![An anhinga skins the surface of the water hunting for food](https://dkwall.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Anhinga-Flying—2020-05-03-1024x683.jpg)
![Anhinga drying its wings](https://dkwall.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Anhinga—2020-05-03-1024x683.jpg)
![A laughing gull soaring through the air](https://dkwall.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Soaring-Laughing-Gull—2020-04-06-1024x683.jpg)
![Brown pelican curled and balanced for a nap](https://dkwall.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Brown-Pelican-Curl—2020-04-03-1024x683.jpg)
![A brown pelican enjoying its view](https://dkwall.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Pelican-Watch—2020-04-06-1024x683.jpg)
![The morning crowd on the pylons at the end of our property](https://dkwall.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Morning-Crowd—2020-04-21-1024x683.jpg)
![The evening crowd](https://dkwall.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Bath-Time—2020-04-18-1024x683.jpg)
![A quite fast moving turtle glares at the photographer](https://dkwall.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Turtle—2020-05-04-1024x683.jpg)
![Sunrise over Garden City SC](https://dkwall.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Sunrise-over-Garden-City—2020-04-16-1024x683.jpg)
![The same sunrise with a wide angle lens](https://dkwall.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Wide-angle-Sunrise-over-Garden-City—2020-04-16-1024x683.jpg)
![A fiery sunrise over Drunken Jack Island](https://dkwall.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Fiery-Sunrise-over-Drunken-Jack-Island—2020-04-19-1024x683.jpg)
![Cloudy sunrise](https://dkwall.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Cloudy-Sunrise-over-Drunken-Jack—2020-04-29-1024x683.jpg)
![Garter snake sunning himself on the house wall](https://dkwall.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Garter-Snake—2020-04-08-1024x683.jpg)
![Oyster harvest ends in about a week](https://dkwall.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Oyster-Harvest—2020-05-03-1024x683.jpg)
![A pair of F-16's fly over in a salute to health workers](https://dkwall.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/F-16-Flyover—2020-04-27-1024x683.jpg)
![Typhoon and I enjoy a sunrise](https://dkwall.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Typhoon-Sunrise—2020-04-19-1024x683.jpg)
Such incredible colors and the beauty at each step across such a distance! I must tell you that I’ve never been a huge fan of the ocean and was soooo disappointed when you left North Carolina. I grew up at Lake Tahoe and now live in Oregon, where we have our mountains and the ocean. You may just make me an ocean lover!