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Alex Bar-B-Q, 853 Shell Beach Road, Shell Beach, California. BBQ on the beach, plus cocktails...who's with me!
Taken 1-16-2009 at the opening of the "Ebb & Flow" exhibit at the Huntington Beach Art Center. The exhibit celebrates the City's centennial with historical artifacts, photos, documents, etc.
See more Orange County historical images on the O.C. History Roundup: ochistorical.blogspot.com/
This image was shot near the Shell Beach Memorial to the victims of Hurricane Katrina from St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana. Shell beach is outside the new flood wall erected around much of the Parish. It suffered flooding due to the sea surge related to several storms most recently Hurricane Isaac.
The water is that of the Yscloskey Bayou.
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The Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) is a small pelican found in the Americas. It is one of the best known and most prominent birds found in the coastal areas of the southern and western United States.
This bird is readily distinguished from the American White Pelican by its non-white plumage, smaller size and its habit of diving for fish from the air
Pelicans are very gregarious birds; they live in flocks of both sexes throughout the year. They are exceptionally buoyant due to the internal air sacks beneath their skin and in their bones, and as graceful in the air as they are clumsy on land. In level flight, pelicans fly in groups, with their heads held back on their shoulders, the bills resting on their folded necks.
When forage, pelicans fly to a considerable height over a school of fish and then dive at a high speed into the water, often completely submerging itself below the surface as it quickly snaps up its prey before it can swim away. The pelican then comes back to the surface and spills the water out of its throat pouch that had been caught in the plunge and then throw back their head to swallow the prey. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Pelican
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They are the only species of pelican that is strictly marine in habitat, never found more than 20 miles out to sea or inland on fresh water. They prefer shallow inshore waters such as estuaries and bays.http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/Birds/Facts/fact-brownpelican.cfm
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Adult Breeding
Plumage is primarily gray and brown, marked with a blackish belly, yellowish head, and chestnut or cinnamon brown nape and hindneck (Terres 1980; Farrand 1983; Harrison 1996). www.sms.si.edu/irlspec/Peleca_occide.htm
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Pelicans may not set the heart aflutter as do the majestically handsome eagle or irresistibly cute penguin, but we have to give it up for the big-beaked water bird’s fishing chops. Pelicans often work in groups to drive schools of fish into a small area, then employ their crazy-long beaks to scoop up a meal. These birds are big and heavy, but huge wingspans allow flights soaring to around 10,000 feet off the ground, while air sacs throughout their body keep them exceptionally buoyant on the water. www.bing.com/search?q=Pelican+(Genus)&p1=[MustShow%20Service="BingQA"%20Scenario="Encyclopedia"%20Position="TOP"%20Slot="0"]&filters=IsConversation%3a%22True%22+BTEPKey:%22Encyclo_185%22&FORM=EMSDS0
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Early evening in 1980 on Ocean Blvd at the Wawona intersection in the Shell Beach district of the City of Pismo Beach, California.
Shark Bay WA.
Millions of coquina shells give Shell Beach its name. It is one of many attractions located within the World Heritage Listed, Shark Bay in WA
Some shots from around Dinosaur Caves Park in Shell Beach, California. A "Cave" when the tide goes out.
1ere image d'une scene improbable... une couleuvre alsophis aux yeux bien plus gros que le ventre et un iguane delicatissima complètement passif et visiblement blessé par l attaque sur la plage de shellbeach à Saint Burin Hydraulique (SBH) crédit photo et remerciement : Jordan Jobert Berry
Shell Beach on the North Eastern tip of Herm Island is as good as beaches get anywhere in the world! The sand is almost entirely composed of crushed shells and has an amazing texture. If you ever visit Guernsey (especially in the summer), don't miss out on a day trip to Herm!
Not too small and not too big. Shell Beach is just right for me. :) It's the ideal setting for a short visit to the beach for some sun, surf or just a beer at Do Brazil
Breeding West Coast brown pelicans have a bright red gular patch. Pelecanus occidentalis californicus, Shell Beach, California.
This is a result of 3 bracketed photos, 1EV apart, combined in Photomatix. The shells are along the shore up to 1 meter thick and 4-5 meters wide, The location is Soup Bay in the spring.
This Lined Shore Crab (Pachygrapsus crassipies) was found hiding in one of the tide pools along Shell Beach during a photo meet-up with several SLOCC members last week. Thanks to Jerry Kirkhart for the identification!
Late lunch at Zorro's with Tom & Cami. Afterwards, driving home, the ocean and sky pulled us in and we stopped to take some pictures.
I want to see more of my friends this year. I don't want to make it a resolution. Just a reality.
Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) (IATA: WAL, ICAO: KWAL), located on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, is operated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center primarily as a rocket launch site to support science and exploration missions for NASA and other federal agencies. WFF includes an extensively instrumented range to support launches of more than a dozen types of sounding rockets, small expendable suborbital and orbital rockets, high altitude balloon flights carrying scientific instruments for atmospheric and astronomical research and — using its Research Airport — flight tests of aeronautical research aircraft including unmanned aerial vehicles. The WFF range supports science missions for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and occasionally for foreign governments and commercial organizations. It also supports development tests and exercises involving U.S. Navy aircraft and ship-based electronics and weapon systems in the Virginia Capes operating area near the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay.
In addition to its fixed-location instrumentation assets, the WFF range includes mobile radars, telemetry receivers, and command transmitters that can be deployed by aircraft to locations around the world to establish a temporary range where no other instrumentation exists to ensure safety and collect data to enable and support suborbital rocket launches from remote sites.
The WFF mobile range assets have been used to support rocket launches from locations in the Arctic and Antarctic regions, South America, Africa, Europe, Australia, and even at sea.
Workers at Wallops include approximately 1,000 full-time NASA civil service employees and contractors, 300 U.S. Navy personnel, and 100 NOAA employees.
Taken 1-16-2009 at the opening of the "Ebb & Flow" exhibit at the Huntington Beach Art Center. The exhibit celebrates the City's centennial with historical artifacts, photos, documents, etc.
See more Orange County historical images on the O.C. History Roundup: ochistorical.blogspot.com/