This is Hilton Head beach, South Carolina! This week has been fun even though we have had a bit of rain Sunday and Monday. Today the temperatures have been in the mid 80 degrees.
The water is chilly but nice, my wife’s toes in the water!
Just a few birds, pictures taken at Hilton Head, South Carolina.
Did you make it to the beach this year? What is your favorite beach to vacation?
June 25, 2014
While vacationing in Hilton Head Beach, South Carolina we always enjoy eating seafood several times while we are there. Crazy Crab has the best fried seafood on the island. They also have boiled, broiled seafood, crab, king crab legs and lots more, including a children’s menu.
They have several locations but the location on Hwy. 278 is larger and the wait is not as long as the smaller location that is at the Sea Pines Marina.
When they first come to your table they will bring you a basket of hush puppies and boy they are really delicious! 🙂 I promise, they will be the best hush puppies you have eaten and because they are so good you just can’t stop eating them. I think between the three of us we ate three baskets!
Shrimp Platter
All of the seafood is fresh, just hours off the boat. We had eaten so much boiled shrimp and oysters on the half shell with cold beer the last two days prior so we wanted fried seafood that night!
This was our third basket of hush puppies!
Fried Scallops Platter
Fried Flounder Platter
If you like seafood and you are in the Hilton Head area I would suggest giving Crazy Crab a try. Good food, good prices, free hush puppies, indoor and outdoor bar and during the evening they have someone playing and singing to entertain everyone. For the children, there is an outdoor play ground! Outdoor seating is available over looking the marsh lands.
Recent post: Shrimp Boats at Crazy Crab
Yellow Crowned Heron
Wading birds are generally sleek birds with long beaks which they use to hunt in shallow waters.
The Yellow Crowned Heron is one of the most beautiful of all the Heron. I saw two Yellow Crowned Heron along the shore but they did not want their picture taken. Every time I got close to them they took off further down the beach. I had to keep following them to get a couple pictures.
Brown Pelican
I have seen a good many Pelicans hanging around and in flight. The most I have spotted flying in formation today was 27 but they were just too far away to get a good picture.
Baby Anhinga just about ready to leave their nest
I watched for about 30 minutes several of the mother Anhinga fishing and then landing near their young to feed them. They could hop around from limb to limb but just not able to fly yet. These couple of pictures of the Anhinga in the trees was over 200 feet away.
The Anhinga have webbed feet because they dive into the water and swim to catch fish. Before they can fly again they have to let their wings dry. That is why you will often see them with their wings spread. I posted a few pictures last year on the Anhinga, click to see my post from last year, Hilton head Large Birds
Baby Anhinga
Egret
This is an older Egret that was walking along the shoreline hunting for food. Once she saw me she got scared and flew off.
Egret
This Egret was catching minnows and eating them as fast as she could catch them!
Baby Egret in tree
I had to hike thru the woods hoping to get a couple of pictures of the baby Egrets but the trees were just to thick so I decide to shoot a couple of pictures thru the trees. If you look closely a these two pictures you will see baby Egret.
Baby Egret in trees
Great Blue Heron
This Great Blue Heron was hanging around a bridge where several children were fishing. When they caught a fish they would toss it to her. Someone along the way it looks like she has gotten hurt.
Great Blue Heron
This is the same heron in the first picture above, she heard my camera noise and looked over at me.
These shrimp boats are docked at the Crazy Crab Seafood restaurant in Hilton Head South Carolina. They trawl for shrimp from May to December and all the shrimp they catch is used at the restaurant. Crazy Crab has really good seafood and the best ever hush puppy’s. 🙂
Great Blue Heron looking for something to eat! I watched this heron for 30 minutes and got some really good shots that I will be posting soon. He didn’t seem to be scared by me at all.
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