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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