September 28, 2022
Cedar Key, Florida
John Muir once said "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks". Today Cedar Key was no exception to Muirs observation. While Hurricane Ian was coming ashore in South Florida with 7 to 8 foot storm surge waves; I walked on a sandy sea bed here in Cedar Key.
High and dry
The wonder of nature is that both the devastating storm surge and the empty sea bed are direct results of the same storm named Ian.
The storm circulates in a counter cloc kwise motion. My location on the north central Gulf Coast island of Cedar Key is getting the storm winds out of the east.
This wind direction literally pushes the waters back out to sea creating vast areas of dry sea bed where there is normally water.
Stranded Atlantic Toadfish
Today the tide has not returned at all through two high tide cycles. Large expanses of empty sand bars are exposed.
Eel
Wait, wait these, so called, empty sea beds are empty to the casual observer but to the guy who looks more closely nature, as Muir suggested comes through with far more than we seek.
Hermit Crab
The storm called Ian in all his fury brought damage & destruction ashore in South Florida but in Cedar Key today it gave us a gift. The opportunity to get a glimpse of some amazing marine life. It's true, nature in all of its wonder, always gives us more than we seek.
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