Several fishermen wave to Foosaner. Horseshoe crabs are everywhere this morning, flipped over onto their barnacle encrusted backs. Foosaner thinks they might be trying to escape the freshness of the water. Ann Forstchen, a biologist at the Marine Fisheries Institute agrees that's possible. Forstchen also suggests the mucky foam could be caused by the stirring up of the sediment.
Bird carcasses litter the beach.
Three of them are pelicans, one is a loon. I found him here yesterday. One of the pelicans died very recently. Like the other two, it's an adult bird, its yellow head feathers poking through the sand. It's hard to tell whether they look sick or merely scrawny.