Saturday, May 30, 2009

Creatures of N.C.


Furry Friend


A friendly fellow


Turtles



One armed crabs



Sorry, blurry beatle



This is supposed to be the alligators


But it was cloudy and they didn't come out that day.


When it was good and dark, we went to see bioluminescent plankton. It was the most amazing thing. I've never seen a firefly before, but this is a similar phenomenom. After the waves of water would wash ashore, if you stirred up the sand just a tad, it sparkled like stars.


Some beach finds.


We had a lesson in Poison Ivy & Michael had a run-in with a tick.

3 comments:

Kate said...

Okay, I've never seen a caterpillar-like thing like that first/second picture. Very weird, but cool, looking!

We do have poison ivy & ticks here in Oregon, though. LOL Neither of which are much fun.

:-)

Heth said...

Those are some fun creatures! I can't believe you've never seen a firefly. You need to make a trip to Iowa sometime in the next month. There is nothing quite like a summer evening catching lightning bugs in the back yard. Ahhh, summer.

ann said...

Great pictures, Joanne. You have never seen a lightning bug? They were out last week, but have gone back into hiding, it's too cold. It's just not summer without lightning bugs. I didn't realize they don't live everywhere in the U.S.