The annual picnic of the Littoral Society took place at Sandy Hook – Littoral Society, New Jersey. on June 22, 2024. It was a hot day. We went on the botany walk before the picnic.
Sandy Hook Landscapes
Sandy Hook
Sandy Hook Flora
As part of the littoral picnic one of the activities was to go on a walk to study plants by the shore. Alex and Zi showed us many plants. Sandy Hook’s ecology is part of the Pine Barrens which where there before the glaciers. Atlantic coastal pine barrens – Wikipedia
Between 170–200 million years ago, the Atlantic coastal plain began to form.
The Barrens formed in the southernmost and newest land area in New Jersey 1.8 to 65 million years ago, during the Tertiary era.
Over millions of years, the rising and falling of the coastline deposited minerals underground, culminating with the end of the last ice age about 12,000 years ago, when plants and trees began growing in what is now New Jersey.
Forest fires have been a common occurrence before habitation by humans. Fire has played a major ecological role in the Pinelands, and the ecotypes “suggest that short fire intervals may have been typical in the Pine Plains for many centuries, or millennia.” New Jersey Pine Barrens – Wikipedia
Sandy Hook Door
A door near the North Beach Observation Deck, Sandy Hook, New Jersey.
For Thursday doors today: Iowa—Beer Club—Doors – No Facilities
Sandy Hook Landscapes
More landscapes at Sandy Hook, New Jersey. The last photograph was taken from the restaurant after the rain while we ate dinner.
Sandy Hook Beaches
The dark clouds added a dramatic atmosphere to my beach photographs at Sandy Hook, New Jersey.
Sandy Hook Picnic
We attended the annual American Littoral Society (littoralsociety.org) picnic at Sandy Hook, in New Jersey on June 26. It rained in the morning and late afternoon but not during the picnic. While driving by I spotted an osprey and later at home noticed an egret in the tree.
Sandy Hook
We went on a botanical walk during the annual Littoral Society (littoralsociety.org) picnic at Sandy Hook, part of Gateway National Recreation Area.
I learned how a little window on the seed pod opens on the Clasping Venus’ Looking-glass (Triodanis perfoliata) and the seeds tumble out.
Doors at Sandy Hook
Old military testing ground doors at Sandy Hook, New Jersey.
For Thursday Doors October 7, 2021.
Doors at Sandy Hook, NJ 10/2/2021 
Doors at Sandy Hook, NJ 10/2/2021