Nesting season starts next month!
Sea turtles have a rough gig: only 1 in 1000 eggs survive to adulthood. Hurricane Matthew hit Florida's coast Oct 6, 2016, eroding our shoreline, and exposing many un-hatched (thus unviable) turtle eggs.
At first I thought they were ping pong balls:
Then I noticed the sand pipers enjoying a breakfast buffet...
The photo doesn't do the scene justice. It was the Circle of Life in action. For one day, maybe two, the sand pipers feasted.
Trash
The beach continues to be quite clean, devoid of shells, seaweed, and trash.
Between Beach Woods and Coconut Point Park, I only picked up this:
It seems that blue is the go-to color for plastics these days.
Treasures
Sentinels continue to guard our beach, albeit leisurely.
Goldilocks and the Three Face-Hugger Skeletons:
I'm not sure what they were, but I found several face-hugger-esque corpses on the beach today.
And two of these primeval roaches. Yuck:
Hail Hydra:
