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3 miles east of Oglesby, Illinois, is a surprising pocket of beauty you have to see to believe, because the surrounding countryside is flat farmland for miles.
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The Giant River Otters at the Dallas World Aquarium are rarely out, and when they are, there’s such a crowd gathered around it’s difficult to move forward or even try to get past them to go onto the next exhibit. I was lucky to take this photo from the third floor.
A colony of cormorants lives on SS Palo Alto, a beached concrete ship at Seacliff State Beach, CA
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Feeding bread to about 50 turtles, Kitty Hawk, Outer Banks, NC
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Boogie-boarding at Kitty Hawk beach, Outer Banks, NC
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