 Feb 5 pm survey - shore south of Red Bays |
 Dock west of Red Bays |
 some storm damage evident in the area. |
 old offshore wreck |
 looking south, where we were headed |
 A very wet osprey flew in to dry itself in the tree |
 orsprey in the branches overhead |
 osprey drying off |
 osprey drying off |
 osprey drying off |
 what are YOU looking at? |
 "One-Mile Beam" on a wrecked piece of boat deck on the beach |
 This might have been manufactured as long ago as the 1930s. |
 this kind of seaweed was common (never saw it on the east coast of Andros, though) |
 The marl on the coast is firm, compacting itself into limestone but still fragile. |
 On the east coast this would be hard karst - here, it's still soft |
 you can break off chunks like this |
 stone trying to form |
 looks like stone already, but it isn't yet |
 The black circles are decayed red mangrove roots - one day these will be holes in karst |
 Further down the beach, an octopus in the silty water |
 We though it was dead at first, but it hitched a ride on my monopod |
 octopus in the water |
 octopus |
 octopus |
 octopus |
 octopus would like down, please |
 The octopus disappeared into a hole, sucking its head in and pulling its arms in after till it vanished |
 Wilson's Plover pair |
 Wilson's Plover pair |
 Wilson's Plover pair |
 Turkey Vulture feeding on a nurse shark |
 we smelled this before we saw it - dead sharks smell really bad |
 Turkey Vulture feeding on a nurse shark |
 Turkey Vulture feeding on a nurse shark |
 Turkey Vulture feeding on a nurse shark |
 Turkey Vulture leaving reluctantly |
 Turkey Vulture woiuld like us to go away and let it eat in peace |
 dead nurse shark |
 turnaround point about two miles south |
 Karst - this is what the marl will be someday. |
 Karst near Red Bays |
 Karst near Red Bays |