Two shots from the balcony and I decided from the angle of the sunrise and my position, I should go outside.
Putting the sun behind the subject gives it a whole new look
Back on the balcony. I think if I was one room over, in my favorite unit, 331, I'd have an unobstructed sunrise. But, its good to get outside. Speaking of which, after a hearty breakfast, I was on the water at 10:00
Saw dolphins right away, but the only fish photo I got was in this cormorant's beak.Black skimmers and more on the sandbar at the entrance to the Number 2 Channel
Which I was surprised to see. Not the skimmers, the sandbar. Two sources had high tide at 9:45.
If it was the high, it was not very.
Paddling past two clammers, on coming in, the other going out, I heard, "Thought the high was at 10" Even those who depend on the water for a living were surprised at how low it was.
For now
That's a white pelican. Poor pic posted for foreshadowing. A few of them flew by, I guessed where they were headed.
The dwindling white pelican flock
The reason the bald eagle looks so small
I had never paddled the Number 3 Channel from near Scale Key to the Gulf. From Gulf to the Number 3 Brdge and on to the Number 2 Channel once. Several times cutting past the wreck, into the channel, than to the Number 3 Bridge and "home"
I thought I may find the pelicans.
My guess as to where the white pelicans were headed proved correct. Unless, this was a another group
Not sure if there was an eagle in the big nest on the Gulf side of Scale Key
Into the Number 2 Channel, because, like a box of chocolate....
First time I have seen white pelicans near the wreck
Probably thought I was stalking themGot to Sandy's, did not have my wallet. Although a mention on Dave's Yak Tales has to be worth at least 50 bucks, I went back to get it.
Opportunity for more photos
I did not buy produce. Clams, bay scallops, and a stick of butter
Last pic from the bike, 3:13, first pic of the afternoon paddle, 3:27. Not a bad transition.
As often happens, I set out with no real destination in mind. Thought about paddling to Snake Key, but it was sort of windy, so I paddled around Astena Otie Key
The crowded side of Astena Otie, an easy paddle from City Beach
Snake Key
I stayed with circumnavigating Astena Otie
Landed to try for a better view of the nest
Got a better view of things in the water, like this horseshoe crab, as I waded.
Shell in hand, empty. Shell on sea bed, alive scuttling along, "legs" on the bottom. Leaving a track, something I never thought about a shell doing
No eagles, for the moment.
Back in the yak
Eagle?
Has landed
As did I.
Into the Number 2 Channel
When they took off
In the tiny cove at Old Fennimore Mill
Tiny, but bird packed.
Back crowned night herons.
Dinner served at 9
3 comments:
There are more postcards quality pics there than in a rolling display at any souvenir shop.
Luis, I was thinking the same thing. Nobody has more photos of Cedar Key than Master Dave; seems a compilation photo album/book might sell in a local shop?
Thank you both. But, I don't want Cedar Key to get any more publicity. Besides, when Luis goes and publishes his book, mine would be relegated to the recycle bin.
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