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Sunday, October 16, 2022

Emma Colley's Random Travels

I am sharing some of my random travel photos, this is not only for my followers but more of a reminder for me and my hubby of where we have been and what we have seen over the years. All good memories for us, I hope you enjoy too.

Kauai Sept 30, our last full day on the island. We did some repeats of Anini Beach for snorkeling, Queen's Leyland and another visit to the Kilauea Point NWR.

We started off the day with watching the sunrise at beach near our hotel. We passed by the hotel pool on the way to the beach.

The man driving the van in the parking lot arrived blowing a whistle and all the cats came running. Their breakfast has arrived.

After our breakfast, we started the day driving over to the north side of the island, with a stop at the Queen's Leyland. It is a difficult hike, I started the hike after seeing the trail I went back to the car and hubby continued down the trail to see the view of the Queen's Leyland.

This was our second time visiting Anini Beach, hubby did some snorkeling and I was watching the birds. Below is a view of the water, something surfaced I couldn't tell if it was a turtle or a seal? The bird was seen often, a lifer the Japanese White-eye.

A second visit to the Kilauea Point NWR, I reserved a second visit in the afternoon.

The path up to the Kilauea Point Lighthouse.

A juvenile Red-footed Booby flies by the lighthouse.

The little island seen from the Kilauea Point. It is also a seabird nesting area.

Another lifer seen at the Kilauea Point NWR was the Wedge-tailed Shearwater chick. They have they nesting burrows all around the wildlife refuge, this chick was seen from the path to the lighthouse.

" We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone." unknown

I hope you enjoyed! Thanks for stopping by, enjoy your day!

Friday, October 14, 2022

Emma Colley's Random Travels

Our Kauai trip continues on Sept 29th, we started this morning watching the sunrise in front of our hotel. Another beautiful day in Kauai.

After our breakfast we packed up for our day of sightseeing, snorkeling and enjoying time at the beaches. We had reservations for the Kilauea Point Lighthouse NWR. We used our National Park pass but had to pay $2 for each time slot for parking at the Wildlife Refuge.

The Kilauea Point NWR has one of the largest populations of nesting seabirds. During our visit there, we saw large numbers of the Red-footed Booby, Great Frigatebird, White-tailed Tropicbirds, just one Red-tailed Tropicbird captured in a photo, Nene Geese, Brown Booby, Wedge-tailed Shearwater chicks.

Below all the little white dots are the Red-footed Booby, darker spots are the juvenile Red-footed Booby.

A closer look at some of the adult and juvenile Red-footed Booby.

Our views of the Kilauea Point, looking towards the Anini Beach.

Kilauea Point Lighthouse

A view looking toward the cliff where all the seabirds were nesting.

A juvenile Booby perched above us, near the lighthouse.

Looking back toward the overlook, hubby loves watching the waves crash on the rocks.

One of my favorite places to eat, great pizza, calzones and baked goods were delicious.

After spending time at the Kilauea Point NWR and having our lunch we drove further north along the coast. Below is the Tunnels Beach.

" We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone." unknown

I hope you enjoyed! Thanks for stopping by, enjoy your day!

Tuesday, August 3, 2022

Cambridge, Maryland

A Maryland road trip on Aug 2-3 2022, the photos are from our visit to the Cambridge Maryland marina on the Choptank River, the Choptank River Lighthouse and the town's World War One Memorial and fountain.

The Crepe Myrtle trees were looking beautiful.

The Choptank River Lighthouse is not very tall, we climbed the one set of steps to see a view of the Choptank river and marina.

In the distance is the Rt 50 bridge, one of the twin bridges crossing the river. When the new wider bridge was built the older bridge became a fishing pier now called the Bill Burton Fishing Pier State Park.

Gulls and Cormorants hanging out on the marina pier.

Thursday, October 8, 2020

Emma Colley's Random Travels

Sunrise from the Chincoteague Beach

White Ibis and Egrets

Walk on the beach, Chincoteague National Seashore

American Oystercatcher

Gulls, Terns and Cormorants

Large numbers of Egrets and White Ibis

Wild ponies at Chincoteague NWR

Assateague Island Lighthouse

Kites flying at the beach

Sunset at Tom's Cove, Chincoteague NWR

" We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone." unknown

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Monday, December 23, 2019

Emma Colley's Random Travels

I am adding some trips we took in 2019. This post is on our 10 day Florida January 2019 trip.

A view of the St. Augustine Lighthouse from the park.

Gopher Tortoise

" We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone." unknown

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Wednesday, August 1, 2018

Emma Colley's Random Travels

A Photoblog post of my random travels.

"Let's find some beautiful place to get lost." unknown

Maryland's Western shores is a little under a 2 hour drive from our house. I have gone birding in this area with the bird club and have gone out on a boat ride to Smith Island from this area but this trip we visited lighthouses, parks and gardens.

These are some images from an overnight getaway to Maryland's Western Shore. Lighthouses were seen around Solomon's Island, Piney Point and Point Lookout State Park in Scotland Maryland and Calvert Cliffs State Park.

This is the Piney Point Lighthouse, Piney Point Maryland.

A map of Maryland Western shore, Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay. Maryland's Eastern shore is across the Chesapeake bay.

This is the Drum Point Lighthouse in Solomon's Island Maryland.

Below is the Drum Point Lighthouse.

This is the Point Lookout Lighthouse, it was closed for renovations. I did not want a photo of the fence around this lighthouse so I only took a photo of the top of the Lighthouse. We were there to watch the sunset.

The Cove Point Lighthouse is also being renovated due to open this month.

The view of the Cove Point Lighthouse was taken from the Calvert Cliffs beach.

Joining in with the National Lighthouse Day on August 7th and the llbinourbackyard.blogspot.com/p/hoppity-hops. Thanks to our host for the blog hop.

" We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone." unknown

I hope you enjoyed! Thanks for stopping by, enjoy your day!