Last weekend Shane and I went to Huntington Beach State Park, which has a beach (obviously) but also an amazing marsh. I’ve never really gotten into hiking or other super physical activities, but I can spend hours wandering the park retracing my steps over and over. While I’ll probably never be a bird person (I’m scared of them), I really enjoy taking their pictures – I need a longer range lens, though.

Enjoy a few pictures I managed to snap while getting horribly sunburnt!

A bird sits on a railing

Marsh

This crab crew will mess you up!

Stream through the marsh

Bird strutting

Gorgeous view of water and birds

I love these crazy pink birds (roseate spoonbills)

A bird that enjoys fishing

Hello, I am a bald eagle.

We see alligators every time we go.

My favorite picture – a white bird hanging out on a walkway.

A roseate spoonbill getting out of dodge.

Pretty marsh landscape.

Spanish moss.

I don’t know how I got this picture of a bird taking off, but I’m glad I did.

My sunburn has gotten to the point it’s unbearably itchy and yet it hurts to scratch, so I’m doing *just fine*. I always forget that my incredibly pale skin needs sunscreen a lot more often than Shane’s darker skin. An odd note – I have a birthmark that has no reaction to the sun and so it’s a patch of stark milky white skin in a sea of sunburn on my stomach.

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