beach and marsh wildlife

As you can see, we saw a lot of different animals. We only saw a glimpse of the miniature deer that live on Hunting Island, so I didn't get a picture of them, nor of the numerous dolphins. I did however get a lot of shots of the water where the dolphins just were. I also didn't get shots of the zillions of tiny hermit crabs in various shells, or the live sand dollars we found in the water. The strange creature is a shrimp. The crabs are fiddler crabs - only the males have the claw and they can be left or right clawed. The birds flying overhead were pelicans - one day we saw more than 40 in a line. And of course, that last picture is of two of the wildest things on the beach.