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Collecting stones and bones has its benefits

I’ve read my share of Stephen King and Edgar Allan Poe. I’ve had fun collecting stones and bones on…

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#Edgar Allan Poe #fossil collecting #fossil hunting #fossils #Grand Strand #Mother Ocean #natural history #nature #Stephen King

For Pete's sake: seagulls bring back memories of great music

The gall of them. These seagulls were hightailing it south along the beach with the wind at their…

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#"The Byrds"#Ecclesiastes #nature #Pete Seeger&039;s song "Turn! Turn! Turn! (to Everything There Is a Season)"#seagulls #social conscience

Horseshoe crabs not as 'bad' as they look

Just because horseshoe crabs have a menacing appearance doesn’t mean they’re going to go medieval…

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#coastal waters #horseshoe crabs #invertebrates #Mother Ocean #nature #Ripley&039;s Aquarium #Spivey Swash

Watching brown pelicans never gets old

There’s something ancient about a brown pelican’s appearance.Those long bills. The pouch. Its…

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#"The Flintsons"#"The Honeymooners"#Atlantic Ocean #brown pelicans #cameras #good shows #mammoths #menhaden #Myrtle Beach Pelicans #sea oats

Morning wintery mix brings Myrtle Beach to standstill, conditions a tad frosty

Highway 17 Business was like a skating rink in the early morn. This photo was taken on the north…

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#" good songs #Bob Dylan #Bob Dylan&039;s song "Shelter from the Storm"#Broadway at the Beach #Gonzo journalism #good books #good people #Hunter S. Thompson #hypocrisy and organized religion #Mother Nature #Robert Frost #social commentary #social conscience

Tigers of the sea mystify me

While hunting the high side of the high tide line on Monday, shuffling through foreshore sands…

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#shark encounters #sharks teeth #tiger sharks

Rise, shine and damn the cold

The sun rose today. It did. I saw it.Predicted it, too. I’ve been right..ran out of fingers and…

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#" good songs #"A Whiter Shade of Pale" by Procol Harum #"Kung Fu"#"Titantic"#bungalow #good movies #good shows #herons #nature #palmetto trees #sandpipers #seagulls #The Weather Channel

Some are visionaries, some can't see what's right in front of them

Someone smack me. Go ahead. Just haul off and give me a good whack.Marbles are lodged between my…

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Some are visionaries, some can’t see what’s right in front of them

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Egret makes bum's morning at Dharma Pond

A block down the street from my apartment there are two ponds that have blessed me with endless…

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#"Civil Disobedience"#"Life in the Woods"#"Resistance to Civil Government"#"The Old Man and the Sea"#"Walden"#egrets #Ernest Hemingway #Henry David Thoreau #journalism #mindfulness meditation #nature #Ouija #preferred reading #Shakespeare #social conscience #Susquehanna River

Findin' fun amidst funky fog

The fog was so thick Saturday morning I couldn’t spy the sea beyond 50 or so yards from the beach, but I felt most comfortable with the natural phenomenon surrounding me, as if the milky enclosure were protecting me from an unseen world, a place that is…

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