Story Behind the Photo: Osprey
Each time my family goes out on our boat for an afternoon on the Gulf, we use Hurricane Pass between Honeymoon Island State Park and Caladesi Island State Park, in Dunedin, FL. As it’s name suggests, Hurricane Pass was formed by a hurricane in 1921 that separated what is now Caladesi Island from Honeymoon Island. The waters around Hurricane Pass are shallow and are a haven for feeding birds, especially at low tide. It isn’t uncommon to see dozens of shorebirds on any given day, many jockeying for position on the channel markers to get a ‘bird’s eye view’ of the fish below. That is on all of the markers except number nine. In our many trips through Hurricane Pass, when there has been a bird perched on marker number nine, it’s been an Osprey every time. We assume it’s the same one each time and he’s our favorite part of Hurricane Pass. 
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