While docked at Lady’s Island Marina on Factory Creek, we shared space with some interesting, and sometimes curious, creatures.
This small Green Heron was quite the crafty fisherman. On breezy days, as the dock lines swayed and lifted up and down with the movement of the boats, he would “ride” the lines closer to the water. If the line he was on rose too high, he would walk the line to the dock, step over, walk around the cleat and down the dock to a different line, then ride that line to the water to snag a fish before the line rose again. This went on for ages as he tried to get his fill. Dockside entertainment!
We have occasional glimpses of Roseate Spoonbills as they pass through the marshy lowlands. In the second image, we tried – not all that successfully – to capture a better image through the binoculars.
There was a gator that frequented the marina area and occasionally joined us for morning coffee time or just swam by to enjoy the bubbles from our AC thru-hull. Betcha he’d really like a chicken bone with his java.
There were lots of dolphins, of course, and even a bonnethead / shovelhead shark, but I wasn’t able to get his picture. One particularly hot summer evening, several boats crammed full of people passed us heading to the top of the creek, where everyone jumped off and leisurely floated downstream. And they still have all of their toes! 😉
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