More Tundra swans. John at the put in. The fall colors are outstanding.
John paddling the Sawyer Lake trail. The water here is black and reflects saturated colors. It is phenomenal. The water is actually dark brown, but where it is deep it is black. The color comes from the tannins in the surrounding plants. The water is extremely pure, it is filtered and purified by the swamp. Ray egg cases on the beach, the map of where we went today, a twisted vine, cypress needles. They are deciduous so we mostly see them when they turn red and then bare trees in the winter. A large black bear track. There refuge has the largest concentration of black bears in the south eastern united states. There are also red wolves and alligators.
Fall foliage on the bald cypress and some maples on Sawyer Lake. Blue blue skies.
Reflected bare tree trunks. John paddling ahead of me near shore. A big gator splashed in ahead of John. The gators are reptiles and since it is too cool for them they hibernate in the mud, only coming out to sun themselves on warm days. We only scared up one today. They see people as predators since we hunt them and they take off when they see us.
John under mackerel clouds in the sky. John took this photo of me on Sawyer lake.
Mackerel skies and fall cypress. Sunset with sea oats on the shore by camp.
Sunset from camp. A piece of the new bridge they are building to the next island.
We went to Pea Island Wildlife Refuge, which is on the next island south from us and hiked a 4 mile loop around the pond. Turtles, Sanderlings and a tundra swan in the visitors center. The swans wingspan is 7 feet. The pond at the refuge.
Swans in the pond, a huge flock of coots and Ibis with a nutria. We hiked back up the beach. You can't drive on the beach in the refuse, so a nice sandy beach.
Sunset from the beach near camp.
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