Carolina Wild Photo (the blog)

I’ll pick up my story from the previous post as we’re leaving Cape Lookout at midday after a successful morning of horse photography on Shackleford Banks. We made our way across Back Sound behind Shackleford aboard the “Calico Jack II”, with Capt. Monty of Seavisions Charters, headed for Rachel Carson Reserve. The sunny weather was beautiful, with calm wind and flat, glassy water, and temps close to 70 degrees. You couldn’t ask for a nicer December day.

When we reached the reserve, we spent over an hour checking out several areas of the reserve where we had found the horses the day before, but no luck. Finally we decided to check out the tidal flats on the ocean side of the reserve, despite them not being there the day before. Sure enough, we found the horses on the ocean side of the reserve, out feeding on the tidal flats, right where we would normally have expected to find them in good weather this time of day. (continue reading…)