Edisto Island Page 5


*Live Oak Trees, Quercus virginiana, also called Southern Live Oak Trees*


*Live Oak Trees with Spanish Moss*


*Ruddy Turnstone at low tide*	*Shorebirds eagerly foraging at low tide*


Diamondback Terrapin, Malaclemys terrapin, *probably cut by a boat propeller that bled to death near St. Helena Sound*


*A future Tiger Woods*


*Mired in mud*


*Live, large Horseshoe Crabs, Limulus polyphemus -- For the full story, go to: http://communities.brunswickvoice.com/main/default.asp?item=2202345*


*A helpless live Horseshoe Crab*	*A live Horseshoe Crab digging into mud*


*Live, large Horseshoe Crab*	*Horseshoe Crab shell, nearly 13 inches wide*


*Eggs inside shell of dead Horseshoe Crab*	*Tricolored Heron foraging*


*Tricolored Heron foraging*


*A Happy Camper*	*Unlike golf cart crossing signs where I live, this reflects Edisto Beach.*


*A live Spider Crab on a Cannonball Jellyfish*	*An exceptionally tall Brown Finger Sponge*


*Jellyfish of the genus Stomolophusos, species unknown -- I found many on Edisto Beach and one on Eddingsville Island*


*The full Mystery Tree. For details, go to: http://communities.brunswickvoice.com/main/default.asp?item=2202347*	*The heart of the Mystery Tree*


*The top of the Mystery Tree*	*Smooth Sailing; for details, go to: http://communities.brunswickvoice.com/main/default.asp?item=2201225*


*Sea Anemone, species unknown, along with Sea Pansies*	*Two of the same species of Sea Anemones*


*Channeled Whelk, 7.5 inches long*	*Lightning Whelk on Channeled Whelk*


*Pickerelweed, Pontederia cordata, Pontederiaceae*


*Some of South Carolina's tallest Palmetto Trees. Inodes Palmetto, in Edisto Beach State Park*


Wilson's Plover, Charadrius wilsonia, on third egg with two newly hatched chicks in front of her. For further details, go to: http://communities.brunswickvoice.com/main/default.asp?item=2203208	*The third egg, left alone while parents were supervising the* *precocious siblings*


*Wilson's Plover, male, returned to protect egg after I photographed it.*	*Standing over egg in this photo. This baby hatched within a few hours.*


*Wilson's Plovers -- newborn and mother*	*Wilson's Plover, newborn*


*Wilson's Plover, newborn*	*Wilson's Plovers -- mother and chick*


*Wilson's Plover, female*	*Wilson's Plover, male*

*Striped Hermit Crab, Clibanarius vittatus, crawling in whelk shell on beach*