One of my favorite sites in the Morehead City area is located right inside the heart of town. Calico Creek runs westward off the Newport River through the heart of town. At the bridge across the creek on 20th Street, there are nice boardwalk trails running along the south side of the creek. For more information about this site, see the Calico Creek main page . I visited on Thursday morning, May 12. The previous evening, Glyn, my wife and I had dinner at a new and very nice Caribbean restaurant, the La Perla, which is only about a quarter mile from calico Creek. I highly recommend this unique and excellent spot if you are in the area. One of the things I like about this trail is that it offers both Pine/hardwood forest as well as the salt marsh environment of the creek, There are many woods bird species that can be seen as well as shorebirds and wading birds in the marsh. I was lucky on this trip to see one of my favorite shorebirds, the Black Skimmer. I love seeing these guys skim along the top of the water with their longer lower beak dipping into the water collecting dinner as they fly along. See pictures below taken on the trip.
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