This is one of the few images for this weekly topic that I uploaded, rather than using the images already uploaded from the previous appearance, because I was looking at the very faint pastel colors of the sunrise sky reflected in the water and thought, We need more emphasis on those. This is a common loon (Gavia immer,) taken less than a year ago during a trip
Tag: Beaufort
Many birds, one mammal, two… things
And now, we return to Beaufort, but only in the bloggy sense, because we’re still right here vegetating in front of the computer. Because I know you’re not doing something insanely silly like trying to view this on your toy smutphone…
The day we arrived was ridiculously rainy, but in the late afternoon it stopped without really clearing, so all we did was grab a meal and do a little
Mixed effort
The trip we just took, for only a couple of days, was down to Beaufort, North Carolina, a coastal town nestled among a cluster of barrier islands. It’s typical for coastal, tourist-oriented towns: quaint, lots of shops, fancier restaurants, and various activities aimed at tourists. Among the latter were ferry trips out to some of the barrier islands, and among those destinations