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Every other year, a large chunk of my family (my wife’s mother’s side) rents a fancy house on a fancy beach somewhere on the East Coast. We’ve been to the Outer Banks of North Carolina and DownEast Acadia in Maine as well as New York’s Finger Lakes and the Jersey shore, but apparently we love Sandbridge, VA because [...]

The birding at Virginia Beach, as I’ve mentioned, was fair, but held the promise of far better biodiversity if only one could get away from the endless miles of beach houses. Fortunately, Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge offers the ideal ecosystem in which to become acquainted with mid-Atlantic avifauna. Located at the southeasternmost strip of [...]

While I never expected to become a connoisseur of fine Atlantic Ocean beaches, I’ve visited enough of them in my day, this year even, to freely pass judgment on the quality of an expanse of east coast American sand. That’s why I can report with confidence that Virgina Beach is superb when it comes to [...]