Delaware Bay - New Jersey
SHOREBIRDS
May 2007
May 2007
May 12th
I joined Clive Minton and Susan Taylor at Melbourne Airport - but only just! My early morning flight into Tullamarine from Canberra was almost thwarted by fog. After a long delay circling in a holding pattern, until almost the time we were going to be diverted back to Canberra, we were finally able to land during a short spell of better visibility. That was not the end of it because the unseasonal fog also held up our incoming international flight which was diverted to Sydney before heading into Melbourne. We got away three hours late and, despite some time catch-up during the crossing of the Pacific, we still missed our original connexion in Los Angeles for the onward flight to Philadelphia. After getting over the formalities of immigration followed by some harrowing efforts at re-organizing our onward flight we eventually got ourselves, and luggage, onto the next available aircraft - although this meant a much later arrival was now certain. A phone call to our colleagues in the east let them know that we were delayed. They were expecting to meet us at the airport and drive us the last hour and a half to our destination at Reed's Beach on Cape May. We finally arrived at Philadelphia airport and it was good to see Humphrey Sitters and Larry Niles at the baggage retrieval area. We quickly loaded into the truck for the final segment. It was raining! We arrived safely sometime after 11:00 PM and very tired!
I joined Clive Minton and Susan Taylor at Melbourne Airport - but only just! My early morning flight into Tullamarine from Canberra was almost thwarted by fog. After a long delay circling in a holding pattern, until almost the time we were going to be diverted back to Canberra, we were finally able to land during a short spell of better visibility. That was not the end of it because the unseasonal fog also held up our incoming international flight which was diverted to Sydney before heading into Melbourne. We got away three hours late and, despite some time catch-up during the crossing of the Pacific, we still missed our original connexion in Los Angeles for the onward flight to Philadelphia. After getting over the formalities of immigration followed by some harrowing efforts at re-organizing our onward flight we eventually got ourselves, and luggage, onto the next available aircraft - although this meant a much later arrival was now certain. A phone call to our colleagues in the east let them know that we were delayed. They were expecting to meet us at the airport and drive us the last hour and a half to our destination at Reed's Beach on Cape May. We finally arrived at Philadelphia airport and it was good to see Humphrey Sitters and Larry Niles at the baggage retrieval area. We quickly loaded into the truck for the final segment. It was raining! We arrived safely sometime after 11:00 PM and very tired!
Our Green House -83C North Beach Avenue.
It is the house behind the car
It is the house behind the car
Views of and from our bay side veranda
I was delighted to find that we were to stay in the same house that I had stayed in during my last wader expedition to New Jersey -back in May 1999! The 'Orange House' was now GREEN! Things were much as I remembered them, but with many improvements and redecoration of the interior. The house was pretty full but I was able to have a room to myself, at least for a while. Home from home! And so to bed after more than 30 hours on the go with air-travel from Canberra to Cape May.
For the official website see: http://www.shorebirdproject.blogspot.com/
For the official website see: http://www.shorebirdproject.blogspot.com/
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