The good luck with turtle sightings continues! On a 12 mile kayak paddle along a remote stretch of the Delaware Bay shoreline, we saw an adult loggerhead sea turtle surface ahead of us a short distance away. In the late afternoon light it looked golden yellow. After allowing us a brief glimpse of its head and back, it sank quietly out of sight.
Also on the paddle we saw a red fox patrolling the beach, rafts of molting canada geese enjoying the safety of the bay, and toward the end of our trip, a magnificent adult white pelican. The first descriptive word the Peterson Field Guide uses for this bird is “huge.” I agree. That bird dwarfed every living thing around it.