Stroll through the Park

I went for a stroll through Bennett's Creek Park this morning around sunrise and thought I'd post some pictures from my walk. I've walked through this park many times, but today it seemed a much better walk than normal. Whether it's from being cooped up in the house or if it's because I was the only person in the park as the sun was coming up.

This first picture is some oysters that were attached to the boat dock. As you can tell, they have been shucked by something (or perhaps someone, but since it's brackish water, I lean more towards something).







This picture is of the sun poking its head up through the trees of the park. I was on a fishing pier that parallels the bank of the creek, looking back towards the bank. Bennett's Creek is a tidal creek, and from this picture you can see that the tide is out. There's also a lone pine tree trying to eke out an existence on the bank of the creek.







I took a stroll down a very short path along the creek bank. When I took this picture, I thought the branch was a pretty cool element in the picture (that and there was no way to get a picture without it). I love the glow from the sunrise in the background and the reflection of the trees and the glow in the creek. The creek was amazingly calm this morning with wisps of mist all around.





A view from the boat docks looking up the creek. Here the glow in the sky, that I often refer to as a 'halo' because it usually surrounds the entire horizon as the sun is coming up, is really visible and amazingly visible in the reflection in the water. The visible mud leading up to the marsh grass is more proof that the tide is out.







A nice view of some mist over the water with the reflection of some trees. This view is looking down the creek. Another amazing view of the creek.










All in all it was a very good walk through the park this morning. I needed to get out of the house and needed to get some exercise. I was skeptical about hiking through the park, was thinking about a hike through a park where I could get a picture of the sunrise over the water. However, I think I made the right choice going to Bennett's Creek Park this morning.

Being a camera whore, I took more pictures than this. If you would like to see all of them, I posted them on my Facebook page, you can view them here.