Saturday morning, Kelli and I headed to Virginia Beach. We had the idea of doing the DelMarva Loop...heading to Virginia Beach and (finally!!) taking the southern bridge to the Del Marva peninsula. What we didn't know is that we would end up at three national wildlife refuges (Go FWS). So after stopping for diet coke next to the scariest truckstop ever and finding the one toll road in Richmond (here's hoping we don't get a ticket for accidentally not paying.), we made our way to the Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge.
The Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge is completely undeveloped beach that starts south of Virginia Beach to the North Carolina Border. I really want to walk to North Carolina someday, but i'm not sure if I ever will. However, what we did see was at least 3 or 4 dolphin pods and maybe 30 or so dolphins. We saw dolphins jumping, twirling, and I even saw a tail (Kelli missed it) not far from shore. However Dolphins are pretty much impossible to photograph with even my "nice" camera, but I did get a fin of one dolphin in a shot (I tried twice because dolphins are super tricky to photograph). After dinner I tried Sheepshead for the first time. Although a sheepshead has a face even his/her mother doesn't love, it's a succulent, tender fish that tastes a little like scallops.
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| Sheepshead closeup found on the Internet. |
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| A montage of my photos. If you look closely in that middle picture, you can see a dolphin dorsal fin. |
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