Where we heard the laughing gulls laughing, saw shorebirds on the shore, heard a whip-poor-will saying its name in the night, and saw horseshoe crabs horsing around at high tide; and where Alex and Ben saw the ocean for the first time. Not content to leave the beach there, we brought back most of its shells in our pockets and most of its sand in our car.
Flowering plants at the Great Sand Dune
Digging at the Great Sand Dune
Mating horseshoe crabs
Ben's proud collection of horseshoe crab (exo)skeletons
Beach at which we saw dunlins, least terns, caspian terns, black-bellied plovers, red knots, ruddy turnstones, sanderlings, dowitchers, yellowlegs, willets, osprey, cormorants, and lots of gulls.
Ben tapping a horseshoe crab
Closeup to the hc's magical ancientness (older than the dinosaurs!)
Tent time
S'mores
Running to see the ocean for the first time.
Flowering plants at the Great Sand Dune
Digging at the Great Sand Dune
Mating horseshoe crabs
Ben's proud collection of horseshoe crab (exo)skeletons
Beach at which we saw dunlins, least terns, caspian terns, black-bellied plovers, red knots, ruddy turnstones, sanderlings, dowitchers, yellowlegs, willets, osprey, cormorants, and lots of gulls.
Ben tapping a horseshoe crab
Closeup to the hc's magical ancientness (older than the dinosaurs!)
Tent time
S'mores
Running to see the ocean for the first time.
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