Baby pelicans

As we approached the rookery I could hear an alien-like screeching which I quickly realized was baby pelicans being fed by their mother. The rookery was filled with newly hatched pelicans in little nests.
The baby pelicans blended perfectly with the silvery bark of the mangrove trees.

Juvenile pelicans

We came upon an entire rookery filled with juvenile pelicans in various stages of development. The white/grayish looking birds are the youngest, the ones with the brown necks are adult.

Nudibranch

A small nudibranch I found clinging to a piece of sea grass drifting along the Sanibel coast. After swimming in the Gulf of Mexico, we found several more clinging to sea grass and pieces of drifting weeds.

Snails

A cluster of snails under a rotting piece of driftwood on Lover's Key State Park.

Hermit crab

A large hermit crab tucked into a whelk shell found at low tide at Fort Clinch State Park in Nassau County, Florida.

Jellyfish

One of a dozen dead jellyfish that were washed up on Fort Clinch State Park beach in Nassau County, Florida at low tide.

Shells

Broken conch shell on the beach at Fort Clinch State Park. Nassau County, Florida

Barnacles

Barnacles and limpets growing on the rocks along the jetty at Fort Clinch State Park in Nassau County, Florida.

Spanish Moss

Road leading out of Fort Clinch State Park in Nassau County, Florida. The woods are thick with Live Oak trees dripping with Spanish Moss.

Blurry armadillo

The blurry tail end of an armadillo we passed along the road out of Fort Clinch State Park in Nassau County, Florida. He was foraging for bugs under all the leaves.

Snoozing raccoon

We caught this raccoon sleeping in the crook of a tree branch in Amelia Island, Florida along the Egan's Creek Greenway trail.