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.
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Enjoy
Typhoon and I enjoy a sunrise
An anhinga and his red-winged blackbird buddy
A fiery sunrise over Drunken Jack Island
A great egret coming in for a landing
The morning crowd on the pylons at the end of our property
The evening crowd
A brown pelican enjoying its view
A quite fast moving turtle glares at the photographer
Anhinga drying its wings
Cloudy sunrise
Red-winged blackbird
Brown pelican curled and balanced for a nap
Garter snake sunning himself on the house wall
An anhinga skins the surface of the water hunting for food
A laughing gull soaring through the air
Sunrise over Garden City SC
The same sunrise with a wide angle lens
Oyster harvest ends in about a week
A pair of F-16's fly over in a salute to health workers
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!