{"id":130,"date":"2011-10-21T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=130"},"modified":"2014-11-02T16:06:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T21:06:14","slug":"where-the-sea-lends-large","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"Where the sea lends large"},"content":{"rendered":"

St. Simons Island<\/a> is one of the coolest places to spend the low tide hours… the sea retreats almost a half mile and leaves in its place endless tidepools and sandbars for exploring…<\/p>\n

There are joys in every moment. Some, like the Black Skimmers that fly past, hold a little tease and leave a wake of longing…<\/div>\n

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When I’m finished looking for seashells, there’s always birds to entertain me…<\/p>\n

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like these Boat-tailed Grackles playing King of the (sand)Castle<\/p>\n

: )<\/p>\n

(I forget how noisy they are when I’m away from the coast for too long!)<\/p>\n

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Royal Terns are grown, but still begging from their parents.<\/p>\n

(endlessly entertaining!)<\/p>\n

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A walk among the birds at low tide teaches me to measure happiness by nothing I can hold… nothing I can catch.<\/p>\n

; )<\/p>\n

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I sneak close on my belly, camera in hand, for a better look at the spot of mustard on a Sandwich Tern’s bill…<\/p>\n

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and squat low over the water with a Willet.<\/p>\n

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The beach is stretched out as far as it can go as I pause to consider a young Piping Plover feeding at the far end of a tidepool…<\/p>\n

Can my imagination make this bird a familiar?<\/p>\n

(Could be… though its banded companion was hatched in the Great Lakes area this past summer.<\/i>)<\/p>\n

I keep walking and exploring the quiet changes the outgoing tide has left; entire oceans are moved one inch at a time…<\/p>\n

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St. Simons Island is one of the coolest places to spend the low tide hours… the sea retreats almost a half mile and leaves in its place endless tidepools and sandbars for exploring… There are joys in every moment. Some, like the Black Skimmers that fly past, hold a little tease and leave a wake … Continue reading Where the sea lends large<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,2,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4575,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/4575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}