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Lonely Oak Tree is all that shows as high tide rises to unexpected heights along eastern Carolina’s Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway outside Wilmington, NC. Photo taken June 13, 2007 with Canon A520. To see all photographs click here or ‘Photography‘ left bar under ‘Categories‘.

Sailboat heads north up the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway outside Wilmington, NC. Photo taken May 16, 2007 with Canon G7. To see all photographs click here or ‘Photography‘ left bar under ‘Categories‘.

American green tree frog drops by for a short respite one summer evening. Photo taken at 9:01pm on June 3, 2007 with Canon G7. To see all photographs click here or ‘Photography‘ left bar under ‘Categories‘.

Three wild Canada Geese fly in formation over the Atlantic coastline on a beautiful summer afternoon. Photo taken on June 3, 2007 with Canon G7. To see all photographs click here or ‘Photography‘ left bar under ‘Categories‘.

Junior leads the way (as always) and in this picture veers off to the left causing the family circus to change course in mid-stream. See a shot a few frames earlier by clicking on the above image. Photo taken at 4:46pm on June 1, 2007 with Canon G7. To see all photographs click here or [...]

Sail boat with full sails banks almost perpendicular to the water on a windy Cape Fear day. Photo taken June 1, 2007 with Canon G7. To see all photographs click here or ‘Photography‘ left bar under ‘Categories‘.

“Dad” King Goose starts hissing at me when junior gets too close. Here he comes at me about 2-3 feet away before I snapped this shot…then raised my arms up high like wings hard and fast and jumped at him to shut him up. He apologized…we moved on. Photo taken at 5:37pm on June 1, [...]

Once they spotted me a family of three wild Canada Geese swam away as fast as they could with baby pumping those feet with all he had (taking up the rear). Photo taken May 29, 2007 with Canon G7. To see all photographs click here or ‘Photography‘ left bar under ‘Categories‘.

Two Canada Geese weighing about 18-20lbs each taking off heavy -like a pair of B-52 bombers. These two are already paired and getting ready for brooding. Photo taken 12:04pm, May 29, 2007 with Canon G7. To see all photographs click here or ‘Photography‘ left bar under ‘Categories‘.

Wild baby gosling (Canada Geese) leads the way to the watering hole after feeding on the tall green grass as mom and dad waddle behind trying to keep up. Photo taken 8:04pm, May 28, 2007 with Canon G7. To see all photographs click here or ‘Photography‘ left bar under ‘Categories‘.

The largest undisturbed barrier island along the southern part of the North Carolina coast is Masonboro Island, located approximately five miles southeast of Wilmington NC. The Masonboro site is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway to the west, Masonboro Inlet to the north and Carolina Beach Inlet to the [...]

I took this with full zoom at 10 mpx, then cropped to this shot of me watching the three boaters, watching the two hotshots on their wave runners in the marshy backwater by Masonboro Island. The vast Atlantic Ocean backdrops. “Evidence suggests that the first stretch of continental American coastline described by a European explorer [...]