The exposed mudflats of Nightcliff Bay on a receding tide. The scattered pioneering mangroves are fully exposed, their breathing root systems like shadows beneath them. Long skeins of very shallow water are still slowly receding with the tide, creating alternating pools and peninsulas across the bay. A dense flock of wading birds is just visible, mid-image on the left, feeding in one of the transient pools.
Nightcliff Bay pioneers, outgoing tide
#ForestFriday or a sparse proto-forest, anyway, my favourite mangroves. More in ALT. Click in for birds 😄.
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