It is a popular place for a day trip, an overnight camping trip or a guided nature tour with our knowledgeable local experts. Surfers can enjoy the frequent excellent surfing conditions along the beach, and we will transport surfers and boards to and from the island. We can take you and your camping over in the afternoon and pick you up the next day. All sorts of sea critters, egrets, ospreys and countless other shorebirds, and more often than not, porpoises. And once in a while whales of several different types will come close enough inshore to see.
Sea turtles visit the island to nest and lay their eggs.
Please do not approach or disturb the turtles. A marine biologist will take you for a three hour tour, and you can enjoy seining, shelling, clamming and crabbing. Be sure to bring your camera, too, because there is much you might see, including great blue herons, snowy egrets, clapper rails, the awesome rows of almost prehistoric looking pelicans in flight, soaring just above the waves, scarcely moving a feather in effortless unison with the sea and air. The Nature Excursions are every Saturday morning but with advance notice they can be scheduled just about any time.