Monday, October 22, 2012

October 22, 2012 Assateague Island

We rode our bikes to the dune trail and hiked on it. The island has three zones, the beach, the dunes/ forest and marsh.

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Dune trail. John is walking on what is left of Baltimore Ave. A developer had put a road from one end of the island to the other and put in 9,000 lots. Then in 1962 the hurricane destroyed the island and it became a park. Too bad, how sad, I am glad there are not 9,000 houses here. Loblolly pines grow in the dunes. This edge, the closest to the ocean gets a lot of wind and salt spray, so the trees are shorter and wind trimmed.

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They have lots of cones. The berries of this bayberry bushes are what they make the candles out of.

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Sanderlings and gulls in the surf. A stand up paddler on the waves.

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I walked out the forest trail to the marsh on the bay side at sunset. I saw this deer and this sunset.

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I saw this white tailed deer on the way back.

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