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Saturday, August 18, 2018

Calvert Cliffs State Park, Maryland

I am sharing some images from our visit to Calvert Cliffs State Park, located on Maryland's Western Shore. The park has 13 miles of trails, a sandy beach where you can search for fossils, fresh water and tidal marsh lands. The cliffs and shoreline are on the Chesapeake Bay, I enjoyed the views of the bay, a nearby lighthouse, hundreds of dragonflies and turtles. We saw a Belted Kingfisher, frogs, lizards and the Red-headed Woodpecker.

A wet section of the Red trail through the marshland to the beach and cliffs.

A Five-lined Skink

A Belted Kingfisher hanging out at the marshland.

Red-headed Woodpecker seen on a dead tree at the marshland.

There were hundreds of waterlilies on the marshes.

Cove Point Lighthouse, Chesapeake Bay in Calvert County Maryland

A view toward the Cliffs at Calvert Cliffs beach.

Me and my shadow hubby!

I was asked a lot on my previous post about beaver and being warned to look for the beaver. The beaver den is right next to the trail. Beavers have been known to attack people if they feel threatened.

I believe this is the Eastern Amberwing dragonfly.

A guide to the Fossils that can be found on the beach at Calvert Cliffs.

Boat with crab cages?

A look across the bay to Maryland's Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay.

A lineup of Terns, possibly Osprey and Cormorants?

Thanks for your visit today! I hope you enjoyed my post and photos.

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.

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.

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

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

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Casselman River Bridge and State park

Last weekend, hubby and I took a short trip to western Maryland. The Casselman River Bridge and state park was one of our stops. The Casselman bridge is a national historic landmark built in 1813.
It was at one time the largest single span stone arch in the England and one of the first major bridge on the national road US Route 40 which was known as a East-West England highway. Now we have the faster Rt 70 and the old Rt 40 is a slow and more scenic route.

A view of the river towards Rt 68

We saw lots of these spotted fish in the Cassleman River, anyone know what kind they are?

A view of the park from the bridge

We finished our day at the nearby Penn Alps Restaurant and tried some of the wonderful their Mennonite food. I had a their Asian Chicken Salad with the White House dressing. Wow, was it ever delicious. So good I had to bring home a bottle of the dressing. After dinner we checked out the Artisan village and the House of Yoder. My favorite part was visiting Gary Yoder and his amazing bird carvings. Gary Yoder's bird carvings are in collections around the world and I was happy to meet him and watch him do some carving. If you happen to be in the area I would say this place is well worth a stop.

I am link up with Outdoor Wednesday thanks to Susan the host and 2 sweetnsaxy's Watery Wednesday.

Thanks to both of these gals for these fun memes and thanks for stopping by to see my post.

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Rocky Gap State Park, Flintstone Maryland

I can not imagine how I got as old as I am and never been canoeing. Not that I am saying I am old because I am NOT. Maybe, because I was scared silly about the canoe overturning? Well, today I canoed for the first time at Rocky Gap State Park in Maryland. At the boat rental building you had your choice of a canoe, one person kayak, two person kayak and a paddle boat. They also had a pontoon boat ride. We rented the canoe for an hour and we like it so much we stayed out for two hours. We canoed our way around much of the lake and into some coves. There was one time my hubby wanted to hand me the binoc's and I got a little over excited about the canoe rocking but all went well and we didn't take a dip in the lake. Big sigh of relief!

I was hoping to see birds around the shoreline but all we saw were some Mallard ducks. I could hear some Chickadees, Catbirds and some Nuthatches in the woods along the shore. No matter where I am I can always see some Turkey Vultures flying in the skies above.

We must have seen 30-40 mallard ducks along the lake shore.

We were not the only people with the idea of going to Rocky Gap State park. I think with it being Labor Day weekend a lot of people had the same idea of enjoying the park, lake, cookouts and the good weather. After canoeing we walked part of the lake loop trail and we could see good views of the beach and scenery around the resort.

Along the lake loop they had an aviary and being a birder I had to stop and check it out. They had a lack Vulture, two Red Tailed Hawks, Two Barred Owls, Two Barn Owls, a Screech Owl and a Great Horned Owl. I wanted to take pic's but the wired cages made it difficult. I did try a shot of the Barn Owls only because I just love Owls.

The resort had a very nice garden for the birds and butterflies. I noticed many berry bushes and butterfly bushes planted and a pond. There were hummingbird feeders and regular bird feeders. I thought it was cool that the resort had such a nice wildlife garden.

Now, that I have been canoeing and can feel safe, I'm sure hubby and I will be back to Rocky Gap.

More scenery pic's from Rocky gap

Thanks for visiting, have a happy day!