Kitts Hummock, Kent County, Delaware
First sunrise of 2009, 22 degrees, windchill of 9 degrees. Got there about 20 minutes before sunrise, which was pushing it in those temps! I love the twilight before the sunrise and after the sunset more than the actual rising and setting, though.
It’s a little hard to tell from the photos, but the beach and the mud flat were frozen solid. I didn’t even leave footprints once I got down near the water at all. You can see a horizontal line just below the horizon in most of the photos which is where the actual water starts. Everything closer than that is ice and frozen mud. The two sand shots near the end are of the texture of the frozen sand down just beside the water, and the last shot is my frigid perch for the sunrise.
Kitts Hummock is also part of the St Jones component of the Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve. For more information about the Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve, please visit their website. For more information about volunteer opportunities with the Reserve, click here.
For more of my photos from the Reserve components: http://lifeontheedges.com/tag/DNERR
And last but not least, for more Kitts Hummock photos: http://lifeontheedges.com/tag/kitts-hummock
Happy New Year!
