Images

Beach erosion by a tropical storm produced the cliff-like escarpment seen in this image and accidentally exposed about 8% of the eggs in this loggerhead sea turtle nest. The protective stakes mark a nest from an earlier week as part of a county research program that marks and records every eighth nest.

This image depicts a cliff-like escarpment in the sand of a Florida beach. Notice the marked turtle nest (background) and the unusual single exposed egg (right foreground). The protective stakes mark a nest from an earlier week as part of a county research program that marks and records every eighth nest.

Cliff-like erosion escarpment on a Florida beach. The four-to-five foot depth of lost sand exposed egg-shell fragments from a sea turtle nest.

Cliff-like erosion escarpment on a Florida beach. The four-to-five foot depth of lost sand exposed egg-shell fragments from a sea turtle nest.

A morning photo depicts evidence of a sea turtle nesting the previous night (from the sea, left; return to sea, right). The protective stakes mark a nest from an earlier week as part of a county research program that marks and records every eighth nest.

Sunlight and an offshore shower produced this double rainbow off Florida's east coast.

Florida beach at low tide. Note the sandbar and sculpted sands in the intertidal zone.

Large, cliff-like beach escarpment produced by waves from a tropical storm. Note also the prominent animal burrow.

Cliff-like erosion escarpment on a Florida beach. A large burrow into the face of the escarpment is visible.

This bucolic country lane in east central Florida is lined with cabbage palms and oaks, a scene that is made increasingly rare with ongoing pressures of urbanization.

Sunlight and a late afternoon shower produced this double rainbow above a Florida beach.

Sunlight and an offshore shower produced this double rainbow off Florida's east coast.

Typical sandbars andsculpted sands left behind by a receding tide.

Teams of turtle researchers survey Florida beaches to record each morning's new nests. On this beach, one out of eight nests is marked for further study as shown here.

Sunlight and a late afternoon shower produced this double rainbow above a Florida beach. Note the eroded beach escarpment from a recent tropical storm.

Sunlight and a late afternoon shower produced this double rainbow above a Florida beach. Note the eroded beach escarpment from a recent tropical storm.

Typical sandbars and sculpted sands left behind by a receding tide.

Large, cliff-like beach escarpment produced by waves from a tropical storm. Note also the prominent animal burrow.

Teams of turtle researchers survey Florida beaches to record each morning's new nests. On this beach, one out of eight nests is marked for further study as shown here.

Florida beach at low tide. Note the sandbar and sculpted sands in the intertidal zone.

Sunlight and a late afternoon shower produced this double rainbow above a Florida beach. Note the eroded beach escarpment from a recent tropical storm.