NEWS
Bud Doyle's Beach Walk Report, December 2011.
1. For the past 7 years, groups on my nature walks have enjoyed tasting sea grapes on the North Jetty walks. There have always been hundreds, no thousands of grapesthat we enjoyed from October into January. However, this year there are none to be found.
2. On that recent blow two
weeks ago, I found hundreds of bay scallop shells on
North Jetty Beach. Normally,
I am able to find a number of calico scallop shells and
a few bay scallops. However,
on this occasion, there were only a few calicos and,
as I mentioned, hundreds of bay
scallop shells.
I have been unable to find any
answers to the above.
One more interesting note, as we
were hiking the coastal forest behind Caspersen Beach,
we came upon a river otter
swimming along in the intracoastal waterway. It turns out
that they have been coming on to
the beach from Red Lake to feed on ghost crabs. So
the otters are enjoying crabs for
breakfast at Caspersen Beach while I am eating cheerios
on Albee Rd. in Nokomis - what's
wrong with this picture??