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Pierce's first trip to Anhinga Trail
Gators dig water way
The joke is so that they are assuring a supply of fresh water in the lake. Taylor Slough is at the mercy of the Miami Water managers.
I am sorry but I deleted the photos in error when I cleaned up my drive, and formatted my cards.
Another Anhinga Trail Morning
I started out shooting with my 70-200 lens, but when the sun came out, I switched to Pat’s 80-400. Still trying to figure out all of the right bird settings at the appropriate times (yeah, right)! I think these photos have too much noise in them, but I’ll share them with you anyway.
We had a very friendly Wood Stork that was all about posing for us today. He was very close to us and didn’t seem to mind all the photography going on around him. We also followed a tip from Colin about a Great Horned Owl up in a tree near the visitor center, but even the reach of the 80-400 wasn’t really enough. Plus we were standing next to a guy with a huge 500mm lens on a lovely Gitzo tripod with a Wimbley head on it! OK>>>NOT FAIR! Then he showed us up by adding a 2x teleconverter. That’s about the time I packed up and called it a day!
I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my 2 week vacation. It will be hard to go back to work on Monday…I already know what I’ve got coming. Thank you for viewing my photos and enduring all of my nature adventures. Amy
Great Falls Shadows
An Aussie Christmas Lunch
Christmas in a bush park on a hot summer day consists of our sons doing some fishing, a lunch of prawns and oysters followed by cold turkey and ham off the bone with a potato salad and garden salad. Too hot for hot food. Fortunately, today was overcast and that kept the temperature down to about 29-30 degrees C. When the wind blows, it "snows" gum leaves from the trees... The closest we'll ever get to a white christmas.
Anhinga Trail & Snake Bight Trail
I was exhausted after this long adventure and ended up in bed with a migraine for the rest of the day and night...probably from not drinking enough water.
I've added a few of my photos to the Recently Added gallery on my site:
Everglades National Park - Our First Club Outing
Here are my shots - Well, at least the ones that were worth posting. As Amy said, we finally got the group together and had a great time at our first outing. I think now that we finally did it and all had a great time, we should be able to do this on a regular basis. I for one vote we go back to the 'Glades.
In fact, I had such a great time that I went back into the park later that afternoon to visit the Anhinga Trail guring the golden hours. I definitely want to go back!
And, a very special thanks to Colin, who graciously took a few of us on a personal tour of some of the best spots. As a lot of you have heard by now, we got to witness a gator on the prowl, and had the chance to see him leap out of the water numerous times as he chased an Anhinga swimming around him.
I have a few of the shots of the gator making his move posted in the link below. I'll have more as I continue to process the images I took. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy these.........
Challenge Entry
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Early arriving birds ENP November 2007
Again?!!!!
- ~ the Mall of the visitor's center at Mt. Rushmore, where every state and territory is represented by it flag.
- ~ a composite photo of several shots of the Crazy Horse Memorial mountain during the evening light show.
- ~ examples of terracing at Mammoth Springs, Yellowstone National Park.
Repeating Patterns Entry: A Walk in the Park
Bike rack Bleacher Chain link Nothing but net School windows Sign post
Route 66 Rendezvous
At the Park - Challenge
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Brick Wall Wooden Gate
Band Shell Ceiling - 1 Band Shell Ceiling - 2
Stone Walkway Band Shell Roof
Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake, Utah
As the thick clouds rolled in, the building shadows seemed to be gaining at the heels of the retreating seagulls and sand pipers.
A picture perfect end to a great day on the lake.
Glaciers!
These rivers of ice are mammoth. For example, in the photo "Mendenhall Glacier 0999," I'm standing a mile away from the glacier face, and the face is 100 ft tall. The calvings in these pictures don't look too large, but the park ranger in Glacier Bay told us that the calving we saw was chunks of ice about the size of a car. The glaciers that fall into the ocean leave ice bergs (or "berg bits" as the little ones are called), so we saw a bunch of those too.