Fripp Island, South Carolina

                               A great place to go and get away from the busy world we live in.

  A small diamondback terrapin turtle becoming a meal. It was washed up with a high tide in the sea grasses. The chain of life.

                                                   An entrance into a home on the beach.

                            A river otter eating an oyster toadfish in the river by the condo

                                                                            Osprey

                                                         A nature area in high tide.

                                                              High tide hammock.

                                             An ambush bug all camouflaged up in lichens.

                                                  A beautiful little green anole lizard.

                     Up De Crick. A little strange for a name. Or is it!! Had to take this. Very cute.

      Hey bud,whatcha doin!!  Yellow bellied slider with a young alligator. Predator n prey side by side.

                      Marbled godwits after a nice ocean bath n preen go back to the tidal pool.

 This unfortunate crab was buried in the sand on low tide. As my sister and I were walking along and talking. I saw this sand covered thing move. It lifted it's arms towards us. Oh my ,it was a crab. Unfortunately was on its last legs of life. It had already been predated and had no face. Poor thing could still hear and reached out. Talk about an impact. Again it is life in the wild.

 Mother nature provides us with many amazing things. Here is the work of art from the tides. They are called sand braids. And are formed from the tides waters.  So incredible.

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A pair of crows in a live oak tree. One actually had a mouse and it was part of a mating ritual I believe. A lot of calling took place to get the other mate to come in and then they danced around a bit and flew off with mouse together.

Fripp Island, South Carolina

The following are some assorted photos I took while on Fripp Island. An amazing place to spend some time. Surrounded by beauty and wildlife galore. And best of all quiet. Best beach I have ever been on. The huge live oak trees are a work of art in themselves.

                                                                Brown Pelican

                                                           Eastern Bluebird

                                                        Momma Alligator

                                                         White Tail Deer

                                                        American Avocets

                                                           Turkey Vulture  , Bear Island

                                                       Armadilo, Bear Island

                                                 Immature Little Blue Heron

                                                   Willets in the ocean breeze

                                                Female Red Bellied Woodpecker

                                                          Bottlenose Dolphins

                                         My sister took the shots of myself doing my thing.

   Errosion on Hunting Island. They lose 15 ft per year and sea turtles are being affected as well.

                                                               Brown Pelican

                                                            Enroute to the beach

                                                              Young buck grazing

                                                               Taking in a sunset.

                                                     I believe these to be from crabs

                                                                    Sanderling

                                                                       Willet

                                                             Big jellyfish washed up

                                                     Marbled Godwit in the setting sun

                                                  Another amazing sunset in motion

                                                An old abandoned house, Bear Island

                                                       The ocean with raging waves

                                                 Bottlenose dolphin playing in the waves

                                                            Yellow bellied sliders

                                 Myself holding a box turtle from the Fripp Island Nature Center.

                                                                 Green Anole lizard

 

 Wood stork