29 May 2026 Huguenot State Park: The Spoonbill Pond and the Boneyard on Big Talbot Island

The boneyard is called that because the beach is littered with massive stumps.  We walked all along the beach and then headed north.  We eventually got close enough to Georgia that I could throw a rock and hit it.  We stopped for dinner and  then headed back south.  We got to the Spoonbill Lale just at dusk and the Spoonbills were out for our viewing pleasure.

Dune restoration area

Backlit wooded trail

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Goofball for scale

So many great art projects 

Choose your steps wisley

After much driving we found a dinner place

Bathrooms

Tentacles and tots!  A good appetiser 

Ken gets the fresh fish

Pizza for my dinner, breakfast and lunch the next day

Locals with leopard dyed hair

The most northern extent of our trip

Herons heading over to the roost

Damn those willets!

Spoonbills

More little plovers

So very pink

A very calm lake

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With great reflections

One damn slippery surface

Bunny 

Blue Heron with a live snake trying to deal with

Heading back to camp

 

  It has been 3 years and 354 days since we began our Migration

29 May 2026 Huguenot State Park: Through Jacksonville to the Huguenot State Park

 

We drove up through St Augustine and then stopped off at Ken's house to drop off the canoe.  Ellen was feeling sick soo we did not venture inside and we began calling the house the plague house!  No one was up for a bout of Noro virus so we headed  off to Huguenot State Park for our last night of camping.  

The causeway into St. Augustine

Lots of fancy buildings

A tram to mitigate traffic congestion

The fort

Classic old building

Ken's boat yard

More boats

Even more boats

Waiting for the ferry across the St Johns

Coast Guard

Woof!

It was a short ride over the river

Landing

Lots of helicopter action

Setting up the tents early to let them dry off from the previous evenings soaking

A ocean going research vessel

A big radio dish

Huguenot Park is a drive on beach

Watching the beach / parking lot

A ship based light house?

Royal Tern, one of thousands

The dunes were all blocked off

Mating Royal Terns

Very congested

Pelicans

The black skimmers and their oversized beaks

Compare to the laughing gull's beak

American Oystercatcher

The pair was doing a funny kind of dance

More bird posturing

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The two parents were being followed by a needs chick wanting some food

There was a wilson's plover in this area that they are trying to protect

 It has been 3 years and 354 days since we began our Migration