Not too many waterfront options for my morning addiction. I keep checking my Google Maps hoping to find one I haven’t been to yet. No dice. I think I’ve covered them all… well, at least all of the ones that are close enough to pedal to in the morning and still make it back in time to get to work on time. So this morning, I decided to return to Port Mahon. And so glad that I did as the early morning colors were incredibly saturated. Beautiful!!!

Well I surely didn’t know. Hummock???… never heard of the word!!!
I was just glad that there was an abandoned beach for my sunrise addiction.
Sure there were a few beachside resort houses… but no people.
Just sand & water as far as the eye could see both north & south.

It wasn’t until I was leaving that I noticed the historical marker.
And that explained it… kinda. So now I know what a “hummock” is… kinda.

A big photo with a big sky full of pastel colors over Kitt’s Hummock.

This morning I was feeling adventurous and decided to go further south to a new beach for me. I keep looking at the Google Map on my phone to see if there are other options for a good water-side sunrise. Looks like I’ve done most of them… except for this one! So this morning I woke up a little earlier and pedaled off into the darkness. Part way down, as I was rounding the Air Force Base, the morning colors were starting to peek through… sooner than I would like… all I could do was pedal faster!!!

Luckily, by the time I got to Kitt’s Hummock, the morning sky was still changing colors. Turning a beautiful range of pastel colors.

And again… not a single soul on the beach besides me!!! Gotta love a sunrise just for ME!!!

After the concerts… Monday morning took me to Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge.
A “swampy” collection of lakes, ponds & rivers just north of Dover. A few too many bugs for my liking… and not quite enough birds. Seems like there were a LOT more migratory birds there two years ago… less last year… and even less today. What’s up with that?!

One last photo as I was leaving… too many bugs… and then to pedal back to the hotel to get ready for my day. For today we start taking down some of FIREFLY and start flipping other parts over to BIG BARREL.

A sunrise view through the dry-docked boats at the Leipsic harbor.

Pickering Beach is one of the small beach towns. So small there’s only about 20 houses and nothing else. Literally… so maybe it’s not even really a town?! But just a beach? Who knows…

Anyway, it was so nice this morning to have the entire place to myself.
Not another person to be seen anywhere up & down the beach.

Okay, so no people… but plenty of horseshoe crabs!
So many of them flipped over on the beach. Trapped upside-down without a way to get back to the water. So I did my duty and started crab flipping. I must have flipped at least two dozen!!!

And just so you can see how big they are… here’s a horseshoe crab compared to my foot!

It was a beautiful morning on Pickering Beach. So nice to have the whole place to myself as the sunrise went through its paces creating a beautiful “calico” patchwork across the sky.

An early morning in Dover. I feel better acclimated today and “figured out” what time the sunrise is and how far I need to ride to get to a good photo-op. So this morning I got up a little earlier and rode south to Port Mahon. Good view of the water for morning reflections, as well as some great piers & pilings for sunrise silhouettes!!! We started with clear skies… but slowly a few clouds moved in…

The clouds moved in at just the right time and lit up in wonderful shades of pink, orange & white. Perfect timing for some perfect reflections.