February 16, 2018
The earliest graves in this cemetery date to the 1850’s. We appreciated that signs containing a few sentences of biographical information were provided for decedents who played notable roles in the history of the area.
This person died during a yellow fever epidemic.
Unfortunately, this marker, from 1858, is broken and lying on the ground.
We liked the beautiful iron work around this grave.
The white pelicans in the video below seemed to be practicing their synchronized swimming routine.
4 Comments
Alice McGregor · March 29, 2018 at 12:14 pm
Amazing! And look at all the turtles!
Joette · March 30, 2018 at 6:48 pm
Cool video! And I didn’t notice the turtles the first time I watched it.
Susan · April 9, 2018 at 7:59 pm
I learned in Minnesota when I was photographing white pelicans that they work as a team and will synchronize the dive and all open the bills wide to capture any fish that would be flowing though the water. Often one would catch the fish, the rest went back into circle and work together again as a team. Eventually they all got some food if they continued to work together> I have some great video of this as well. All butts in the air, then coming up in unison and going back at it. I found it quite fascinating.
Jane Appel · April 13, 2018 at 3:10 pm
Thanks, Susan. We had never seen pelicans behave this way before.