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*Canopy Live Oak Trees with Spanish Moss on Botany Bay Road*

*Spanish moss dripping from live oak trees on Botany Bay Road*	*The tree next to Trinity Episcopal Church*

*Presbyterian Church on Edisto Island*	*Trinity Episcopal Church*

*Narrow houses that fascinated me.*

*Pelicans and Clouds*

*Blue Skies*

*The Edisto Beach State Park Beach*

The unusual whelk-draped structure on the east end of the beach

*A silver afternoon*	*A content man*

*Periwinkle, Vinca major, across the street from Trinity Episcopal Church.*	*A dog that brought a pine cone to me and asked me to play fetch. We had a lot of fun.*

A large barnacle, probably Balanus venustus, surrounded by mussels, Brachidontes exustus	*Megabalanus coccopoma -- This is a photo of a nonindigenous, i.e., invasive species, surrounded by native barnacles and mussels*

*Ruddy Turnstone*	*Gull*

*Black Skimmers*	*Laughing Gull*

*Black Skimmers -- part of a colony that hangs out at the South Edisto River. I love black skimmers!*

*Jellyfish*

*Knobbed Whelk -- live*

*Sand Dollar -- live, tube feet visible*

*Brittle star -- live, both sides visible, about 4-inches wide while curled, found in seaweed*

*Sponge -- there were so many of this species that I call it the Edisto sponge*	*Purse crab -- live and large*

*A fossilized shark vertebra -- Fossils are abundant on Edisto Island.*

*A fossilized spinal disc*

*A plane from Charleston and its vapor trail*	*A second plane and its vapor trail at dusk*

*Sunset*