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Archive for April 16, 2007
Day 106 - a Year by the Sea
April 16, 2007 by OrientSee.
Today’s high tide coincided with a storm surge. One corner of the marsh is bordered by a high ( 10 - 15 foot ) bank that is actually the beginning of a hill. You are looking down from the crest of the bank about 10 feet. Ordinarily at the base of this slope, there is nothing but a flat of marsh grass that extends out 25 yards to the normal high tide mark. In other words most of this picture is ordinarily marsh not ocean. You can see the broad band of debris (mostly dead vegetation) that forms and then is pushed up against the embankment by the very high tide and storm surge. That means the catalog of weird things that wash up will be completely different next time I go walking here. A lot of trees are showing fresh marks of broken limbs and torn bark. There was more going on in the marsh than you might expect in a storm. The gulls were wheeling about or hunkered down on the baseball field nearby.The robins were busily harvesting worms. There were crows quartering the marsh closely. A few ducks had their noses pushed into a screen of reeds. A lone cormorant cruised by. Basically, the inhabitants were busy getting on with life while the wind and rain was blowing about.
Ciao!
-Jorge
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