April 11 - April 17, 2006
Dry Tortugas National Park
Recently I had the privilege of spending
several days in Dry Tortugas National Park. Take a
look at a few of the photographs below and I think that you
will begin to feel a sense of the wonder that I felt on these
isolated tropical islands.
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Entrance to Fort Jefferson at Night
Prairie Warbler - Garden Key
Short-eared Owl - Garden Key
Loggerhead Key at Sunset
Magnificent Frigatebirds - Long Key
The View from the Loggerhead Key
Lighthouse
Sooty Terns and the Rising Sun -
Garden Key
Hermit Crab - Garden Key
The Big Magazine in Fort Jefferson
Brown Pelicans Diving for Fish - Long
Key
Brown Noddy - Bush Key
A three minute exposure taken as
the full moon rises behind the Fort Jefferson harbor light
Cleared for Landing - Masked Booby
- Hospital Key
Cattle Egret - Garden Key
Looking across the main yard of
Fort Jefferson
Hooded Warbler - Garden Key
Between the Bastions - Fort
Jefferson
Gray Kingbird - Garden Key
Magnificent Frigatebird (displaying
male) - Long Key
Key West Seaplane as Viewed Through
Fort Jefferson
Brown Noddy - Long Key
Brown Pelican - Garden Key
Sea Wall - Garden Key
Chuck-will's-Widow - Garden Key
"The Sooty Shake" - Bush Key
Bush Key in the foreground (Sooty
Terns and Brown Noddies nest here)
Long Key stretching across the back
(Magnificent Frigatebirds nest here)
Sunrise over the top wall of the
fort
Masked Booby on nest - Hospital Key
Black-and-White Warbler - Garden
Key
Masked Booby in flight - Hospital
Key
The View from Fort Jefferson
Blackpoll Warbler - Garden Key
Sooty Tern chick - Long Key
Worm-eating Warbler after a bath -
Garden Key
Loggerhead Key Lighthouse
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