Moving north on A1A from Washington Oaks about 5 miles is crescent beach and the area around the Matanzas National Monument. The beach here is really cool because of a layer of crushed shell and sand that's mostly orange. The water comes in and takes the gray sand away and leaves this orange color in places, so you get this nice contrast of gray and orange, the orange sand is really rocking at sunrise. This is my favorite place to capture pelicans, terns, skimmers, sandpipers and something called a willet, there are also osprey and eagles around. recently I've been trying to give the little birds some attention so in this post I'll be putting up a mocking bird and what i think is something called a yellow rumped warbler.
A few words about the Matanzas National Monument, it's a masonry fort and was sort of the early warning site for the Castillo de San Marcos. This is a national park, ride the boat over from the visitors center to the fort. the Rangers and the volunteers are great and they tell you about the place
Thats the end of the friday post, Thanks for reading! Lets go shoot!
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