Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Just a quick
update. We are in Delaware, doing some birding and eating good. I could get
really fat here. Not much for internet connectivity though, unless I can get to
a Starbucks. I’m hoping they don’t mind me uploading a bunch of photos as I
suck down a large cup of caffeine.

Me, Lise and Joanna at Sambos in Lepsic, DE.
(Anita photo)

The view down the Lepsic River towards the Delaware Bay from
the dock at Sambos.

This trip is
split into two phases. First, Joanna spent a week with us. She left last
Saturday, to be replaced by Stefan. Always fun to show off a place you like to
people you like. We took Joanna to several of our favorite places and help her
get several life birds. We did the usual round of places here in Delaware and
took the ferry to Cape May, NJ, for a day trip. I was really hoping for some
sea birds on the ferry but we had to settle for dolphins and a hump-backed
whale.

Joanna in
the cypress swamp at Trapp Pond State Park. .

Lise and
Joanna in the cypress swamp.

Anita,
Joanna, and Lise birding from the ferry.

Storm over the ferry breakwater in Lewes.

Clouds over
Henlopen.

A rain storm from the ferry.

We found out
that West Cape May is home to the Lima Bean Festival. Talk about desperation.
This is sinking pretty low even for the festival circuit. Our guess is that they
waited too long to get any of the good festivals. “You want a festival buddy,
sorry, all we have left is the Lima Bean Festival.” I guess it could be worse. As
Anita said, just thank god there isn’t a head cheese festival.

Home of the Lima Bean Festival

So now with
Stefan we are revisiting places and hitting some new ones. It’s a good life. I
could make a habit of this.

Stormy beach
at Assateague.

Stormy beach
at Assateague.

Someone reading on a stormy beach.

Birding has
been good. I’m not sure of the count right now but we have over 140 species for
the trip. We will not know how may are new for the year until we update the
list. Photography has been so-so since we have been focusing on birding. Can’t
really do both.