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Thursday, August 7, 2008

Botany Bay

We were fortunate enough to get a pre-visit to the new Botany Bay WMA before it opened. What a wonderful facility! It's 25 minutes from our house.
Here are just a couple of images from that day. I'll probably show more later.
A bee on agapanthus

Buckeye butterfly on seaside daisy There were lots of different habitats. Can you see all the bright red coral bean blooming in the undergrowth?
We walked about a half mile through marsh and original maritme forest to get to the front beach.
There were all sorts of wonderful shells to see. This is a jelly fish lying on oyster shells. Shell gathering on the beach by the public only in the first month open has become a problem. The people are disturbing nesting plovers and sea turtles. I'm going to a meeting this afternoon about how to control shell taking.