Photos taken in USA and tagged as beaches

Day_109_-_Hunting Isl, View from_Top of LH

This is the view from the top of the Hunting Island Lighthouse

• Date: 19 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Beaufort, USA: gallery
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Day_109_-_Hunting Isl, Lighthouse_Steps

There are 167 steps to climb to the top of the Hunting Island Lighthouse.

• Date: 19 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Beaufort, USA: gallery
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Day_109_-_Hunting Isl, Lighthouse

This was constructed in the 1860's as a 'segmented cast-iron' structure that could be disassembled and moved.

• Date: 19 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Beaufort, USA: gallery
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Day_109_-_Hunting Isl,_Forest

Hunting Island is home to a maritime forest dominated by slow-growing, salt-tolerant, evergreen trees and shrubs and palmettos.

• Date: 19 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Beaufort, USA: gallery
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Day_104_-_HB, Crab_Burrow

As we walked out to the beach, we saw several of these sorts of holes with scratchy looking 'foot' prints around them. They are Crab burrows

• Date: 14 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Georgetown, USA: gallery
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Day_103_-_Unfriendly_Beach

We visited Ocean Isle, about 15 miles north of the SC border. This was the only public access to the beach we could find, wasn't a very friendly place...

• Date: 13 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Wilmington, USA: gallery
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Day_103_-_Mom at_Beach

In spite of the restricted access, we visited the beach at Ocean Isle. We enjoyed the sand and ocean of course, could live without 500k rental cottages along the shore

• Date: 13 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Wilmington, USA: gallery
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Day 100 - Fishing on Ocracoke

On many of the NC Outter Bank Islands, it is legal to drive on the beach. 4WD and fat tires are advised as the sand can be quite soft.

• Date: 10 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: USA: gallery
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Day_100_-_Hatteras Isthmus

The North Carolina outter banks are very long, often very thin sandy islands. This view is facing south so the Atlantic Ocean is on the left, Pamlico Sound on the right.

• Date: 10 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Buxton, USA: gallery
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Day_100_-_Mom_at Ocracoke Beach

While driving south from the Hatteras Ferry terminal, we pulled over and decided to have lunch on the beach.

• Date: 10 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Buxton, USA: gallery
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Day_100_-_JL_on_Beach

• Date: 10 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Buxton, USA: gallery
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St. Theresa Beach

• Date: December 2007
• Photographer: Licia: gallery
• Location: USA: gallery
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Day_83_-_Silver_Beach

This was our first glimpse of Chesapeake Bay; however it seems misnamed. At high tide there's no beach here. There's no public access and the locals don't like outsiders.

• Date: 23 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Norfolk, USA: gallery
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Day_83_-_Cape_Charles

Cape Charles is on the southern tip of the Eastern Shore of Virginia. It is the last town (& Stop) before crossing the Chesapeak Bridge-Tunnel

• Date: 23 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Norfolk, USA: gallery
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Day_82_-_S..atterns

It rained last night, so the sand had these interesting erosion patterns

• Date: 22 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Ocean City, USA: gallery
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Day_82_-_Ocean_City

I sort of prefer beaches without all the apartments up against them, but any beach is better than no beach at all.

• Date: 22 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Ocean City, USA: gallery
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Day 81 - Beach on Rehoboth Bay

This beach is on the west side of the Delaware Seashore State Park, a long peninsula separating Rehoboth Bay from Atlantic Ocean.

• Date: 21 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Dover, USA: gallery
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Day 81 - Beach on Atlantic Side

This is on the Atlantic side of Delaware Seashore State Park, just a couple hundred yards from the Beach on the Bay side (with no waves)

• Date: 21 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Dover, USA: gallery
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Day 79 - Slaughter Beach, Seaweed

There was some seaweed on Slaughter Beach on Delaware Bay. The cream colored object is in the center is a Skatefish egg case (thanks to Judy, who identified it for us!)

• Date: 19 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Milford, USA: gallery
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Day 79 - Slaughter Beach, Black Surf

There was some sort of black plant or ??? life, there was enough that the waves appeared to be black.

• Date: 19 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Milford, USA: gallery
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Day 79 - Slaughter Beach, Mom

We stopped here because Mom had heard you could find fossels on the beach and wanted to look for some. It was quite cool however.

• Date: 19 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Milford, USA: gallery
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Day 79 - Cape Henlopen

This is where the Delaware Bay ends (to the left) and the Atlantic Ocean begins (to the right). It has actually grown quite a bit since 1927.

• Date: 19 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Milford, USA: gallery
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Coney Island

• Date: 17 November 2007
• Photographer: Darell: gallery
• Location: USA: gallery
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Day 67 - Cape May Shipwreck

This is all that remains from the SS Atlantis, a WWI concrete ship that ran aground in 1926. It is just a short distance off Sunset Beach on the southern tip of New Jersey

• Date: 7 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Cape May, USA: gallery
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Day 67 - Sunset Beach, Agates

Agates wash down the Delaware River, then get polished up on the rough surf off of Cape May. Some can be polished into a very clear stone, called "Cape May Diamond"

• Date: 7 November 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Cape May, USA: gallery
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