Seagull Parallel

by Sandi OReilly

Title

Seagull Parallel

Artist

Sandi OReilly

Medium

Photograph - Photography

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This photo was taken at the very end of Pleasure Island, NC, near Fort Fisher and where the ferry comes at US 421's southern terminus connects Pleasure Island to Southport at North Carolina Highway 211.
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Pleasure Island is a coastal island in Southeastern North Carolina, USA south of Wilmington. The coastal towns of Carolina Beach and Kure Beach, as well as the annexed community of Wilmington Beach, are located on the island. Fort Fisher being at the very end of Pleasure Island was a Confederate fort during the American Civil War. It protected the vital trading routes of the port at Wilmington, North Carolina, from 1861 until its capture by the Union in 1865. The fort was located on one of Cape Fear River's two outlets to the Atlantic Ocean on what was then known as Federal Point and today is known as Pleasure Island. Because of the roughness of the seas there, it was known as the Southern Gibraltar.
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With the sea being so very rough there, the very end of the island is covered with rocks that protect the marshy area surrounding where the ferry comes in. It was here I was watching and shooting the large waves crash into the rocks from a Nor'easter that had come up the coast bringing even higher surf and riptides. This Seagull was flying over the rocks and I captured the bird with his wings in parallel with the shape of this rock. The rough seas are evident in the background.
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December 13th, 2012

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