Back to the beach...

My wife Janet and I started to re-visit our awesome Gulf Coast beaches . Our new routine is to leave our house before sunrise on Sunday and drive to Longboat Key. We both love walking along the shoreline in the early morning, looking for shells.. There’s usually a gathering of terns, gulls, sandpipers, and skimmers resting on the beach. It’s been a treat just to sit down as close to the flock as we can get and just watch. As it starts to get hot we head to the Longboat Key Cafe for breakfast and maybe stop at O’Bricks in Bradenton for a Bloody Mary.

Terns, sandpipers and willets @ Longboat Key

A mother tern does its best to ignore this full-sized juvenile tern chirping for a meal, as it chased its parent around the shoreline.

Terns on the wing @ Longboat Key