Jockey Ridge State Park
/Jockey Ridge State Park was very close to our hotel in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. It’s a dune field on the sound side of the barrier island. They sponsor a school from hang gliding at the park which is just a little south of Kitty Hawk where the Wright Brothers took flight. We also stopped by the park before we headed inland to other wildlife refuges. All the pictures were from that morning in the park.
Walking to the end of the boardwalk from the visitor center that crosses over dunes stabilized with trees -
Some with curly lichen -
There is a wooden platform that looks out to a low place in the dunes where water had collected from the overnight rain.
I took the stairs down to the sand for a closer look at the ripples left in the sand
And a few bird tracks made since the rain had smoothed the sand.
My own footprints were the only human footprints.
I walked down to the edge of the water and heard plops in the water. I never managed to see the frogs but they were probably taking advantage of the water.
At the edge of the forest the shifting of the sand was obvious. Some trees were being buried
And some were clinging to the edge with their roots showing.
