Road Trip to Virginia Beach, Va (Part 2)

Navy Seals training with their jet skis near Virginia Beach, VA.

Puffer Fish at the Virginia Beach Aquarium.

Exiting the aquarium headed toward the gift shop.

Child with turtle statue on a shelf in the gift shop of the Virginia Beach Aquarium.

McDonnell Douglas F-18 Super Hornet landing at Oceana Naval Air Station.

Northrop Grumman E-2D Hawkeye.

Old man paddling his surf board in from the ocean at Rudee Inlet.

1989 Bell 206 B helicopter belonging to the Virginia Beach Police Department.

Male Common Grackle.

Female Common Grackle.

The Female Grackle accepting a hand out.

Neptune on the boardwalk at Virginia Beach, VA.

The first of two lighthouses that were built at Cape Henry.   This one was built on a sand dune in 1792

The two Cape Henry lighthouses shown together along with a modern day Coast Guard installation.

The second of the Cape Henry lighthouses which was built in 1810 is 357 feet closer to the ocean and is still operated by the United States Coast Guard.

A lighter, amphibious, resupply, cargo, 5 ton.  Better known as a LARC-5
.

Built in 2011 the Lan May is a bulk carrier.  It is presently on its way to Singapore with a load of coal and should be at its destination in a month.

Our closing shot ---
T.W.Hamburg which came from Port Berry in England to the United States.

Road Trip to Virginia Beach, Va (Part 1)

Last week I spent a few days shooting in and around Virginia Beach, VA as my wife was attending the ILLiad Conference.  Over the next week or so I'm going to post more of the photographs from the trip.

We spent Sunday night in southern Maryland and woke up to a lovely covering of snow.  This red barn at Locust Hill Farm near Port Tobacco Valley, MD   in Charles County, MD

Emmanuel Episcopal Church on Route 301 in Port Conway, VA.

Realtor's office at Queen and Church Streets in Tappahannock, VA.

Rudee Inlet, Virginia Beach, VA.

A scene from the Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center at Virginia Beach, VA back deck, near Rudee Inlet.  The black dot near the top of the tree on the right hand side of the photograph is a bald eagle.

Fresh water aquarium.  
Terrapin.

Sturgeon with a Gar in the background.

Female Komodo Dragon.

Entrance to a large salt water aquarium area known as The Dead Sea.

The top and bottom fish are Unicorn fish.  I didn't figure out what the guy in the middle is.   I want to call the unicorn fish the "Nixon" fish.

Brown Pelican

Loggerhead Turtle

Aurleiu-mudusa jellyfish. 
The color is from a light at the bottom of the aquarium.  It is used to highlight the jellyfish since they are translucent and aren't easily seen without the light.

Lionfish
Found around the world these fish are venomous and in certain areas of the Caribbean there is a bounty because they are an invasive species.

Unfortunately for this guy, the pelicans were catching more fish than he was.