Seagrass Living
This afternoon was a good day for a bike ride from Seagrass Plantation to Holts Landing. I took the side roads and trails thus avoiding narrow roads with traffic. It wasn’t supposed to rain when I got to Holt’s Landing so I was a little wet, but cooler when I got back.
Yesterday was a great kayaking day. The temperature was not too hot at 5pm and the ominous clouds blew away in a different direction. I went with Tim and met a new Seagrasser – Rex.
Today was a good beach day at least in the cooler morning hours whether you are soaking up the sun or fishing. Several people were catching toutog.
I tried photographing the fireworks from the bridge, but they were just too far away to capture the kind of shots I was hoping for. I did come away with a photo of the bridge that I really like.
While I was there, quite a few visitors stopped to say hello. It reminded me of something that’s easy to forget when you live here year-round. Sometimes we take this beautiful place for granted. Seeing the excitement and wonder on visitors’ faces reminds me just how fortunate we are to call the beach home.
I found a short cut to get from Seagrass Plantation to The Greens Golf Course to Ellis Point to Holts Landing State Park without going on any narrow roads with high traffic. These pictures are from Holts Landing Park which is on the Delaware Indian River Bay. https://www.destateparks.com/park/holts-landing/
Here are some pictures I took last night from the Seagrass Plantation Beach. You can see the outline of dolphins in the last two photos. They were taken from a cellphone so the images are small.
Dolphins are commonly seen in Delaware’s Inland Bays, including the Indian River Bay.
The Indian River Bay is surprisingly shallow—its average depth is only about 4.5 feet—but bottlenose dolphins regularly enter and travel through the bay. The Delaware Center for the Inland Bays specifically notes that dolphins are a common sight in the Indian River Bay, even though the bays are shallow.
Bottlenose dolphins are highly adaptable and are known to live in and travel through coastal bays, estuaries, harbors, and other shallow waters.
Owls have a rough life. They have many predators. The screech owl must leave the owl box to get food for themselves and their babies. They also have to avoid hawks and crows. The video reminds me of a dogfight in airplanes during a combat situation.