an up up and away Sunrise

a lil' bit different this morning as I decided to head over to the East End of the island near Tubbs Inlet that separates Sunset Beach island from Ocean Isle Beach island.. Ocean Isle Beach is where Hurricane Isaias made landfall last Monday nite at 1110pm at High Tide with a Full Moon.. a lot of damage on that island with flooding also.. plenty of erosion on this East End also same-same as on the West End of the island where I usually go in the early morning`  ...just one lone fisherman was out there when I arrived on the Sunset Beach side of Tubbs Inlet.. a couple of more surf fishermen were across the Inlet on the Ocean Isle Beach side.. and one fisherman was walking in the middle of the inlet from sandbar to sandbar.. Tubbs Inlet over the past 20 or so years has filled in and is very shallow non-navigable for boats and is at times walkable across .. this morning it was low-low tide with lots of beach and essentially no peeps around so out came the Mavic Air 2 Drone for a beach-sunrise test flight.. no one to bother so it went up up and away..  was actually trying out some new updated firmware that I uploaded to the Drone last nite mainly for camera-gimbal functionality for speed of use and smoothness.. I waited until I got home to set it up though

links to 2 short 2-minute Videos taken at Sunrise with the Mavic Air 2 Drone that I posted on My You Tube page

Sunrise at Sunset Beach --Part Uno 

Sunrise at Sunset Beach --Part Deux

before sunrise at twilight

almost at sunrise

a drone-selfie

the Drone getting ready for takeoff

a look west back from up high at Sunset Beach from Tubbs Inlet

 seagulls on a sandbar

a lost feather

a crab

walking off the beach after sunrise--a look back

a lone Sandpiper along the shoreline

the dunes took a hit from the storm--erosion

and more erosion

the lone sock.. with yesterday's lost lone shoe

the sun goes into the clouds as I drive off the island