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We have a favourite walk which takes about two hours and always offers something new. From the marina we walk across the Villano Bridge to the barrier island some 70 feet above the Tolomato River. Often you are able to look down on the birds in flight below.
We traverse the Villano Beach community to Pelican Point beach where the seabirds rest after feeding and the egrets hunt in the shallows. Around the point we see the beach fishermen by the St Augustine Inlet before traversing the back of the dunes and into the housing area behind.
Through the built-up area we come back to the nature reserve in the marshes where egrets and herons fish and there are hundreds of small fiddler crabs feeding and signaling to one another with their big claw.
We saw Black Skimmers on the beach this year with their bizarre elongated lower beak. They fly along the water surface with the beak wide open, skimming food from the water with this lower section.
Another treat was watching a skilled kite surfer using waves to jump high up into the air and suspend inverted in free flight. Must take a little practice we think! Maybe he has yet to sail the Atlantic though...
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