It was morning on Cedar Key, and I stood in front of a tall green sign near the Cedar Key Historical Museum. Though I gazed at the sign in 2017, my mind was over one hundred years away, when the famous naturalist John Muir visited Cedar Key on his 1,000 mile walk to the Gulf…
Month: April 2017
Duke Nicholas School – Delisting the Manatee
igh. These days it’s no fun to read the news. Most of the environmental stories are bad, and even the “good” ones don’t hold up to closer inspection. Take the West Indian Manatee, which lives in the coastal waters off of the Southeastern United States. I love manatees (I’ve written about the species multiple times). Because…
10000 Birds – Shorebirds in Abaco, Bahamas
Abaco is beautiful. My family and I were staying at the edge of a sand beach, facing a wide flat in a house charmingly named “Bone Ami.” The color blue dominated the senses, changing from a deeper hue during high tide to nearly silver at the lowest ebb. The best part? The sand exposed during low…
E. Zambello Writing and Art 