Jacqui Thurlow-Lippisch

Bottlenose dolphin on post card, NC Maritime Museum, Beaufort, NC I walked into the gift store at North Carolina’s Maritime Museum at Beaufort and saw a postcard: a bottlenose dolphin swam peacefully in the reflection of a setting sun… “Wow.”

Live oaks first planted in 1743 leading to Boon Hall Plantation, Charleston, SC View of the Wilmington River through a huge live oak on the high shoreline, Thunderbolt, GA Cicadas hatch by the thousands in oak trees singing a deafening, pulsating song Cap…

Amelia Island, FL Tomorrow will be two weeks since Ed and I left Stuart on Finito.

New Smyrna, FL Boating often starts out like this.

On August 7th, 2026, in Stuart, Florida, the Everglades Foundation held a day of remembrance — a day of remembrance for the day Senate Presidient Joe Negron, in 2016, held a press conference announcing the goal of the Everglades Agricultural Reservoir to…

Atlantic black sea hare, one of hundreds/thousands, washed up on Martin County beaches 7-29-26 I wanted to relax so I drove out to the ocean.

View of Lake Eden, Savannas Preserve State Park, Hawk’s Bluff Over the weekend, I made Ed get in the car with me.

Daybreak Chastain Beach, Martin Co.

Dead seagrass in the shallows of Florida Bay, Flamingo, Everglades National Park, FL 6-26.

“Gateway to the Glades” Robert is Here Fruit Stand and Farm Est. 1959.

Ed and I were attacked by an army of mosquitoes at the entrance to Everglades National Park.

SLR/IRL looking north.

On February 11, 2026, Ed had the pleasure of bringing friend and world-famous wildlife artist Geoffrey Smith along on a flight to the Everglades Agricultural Area Reservoir Storm Water Treatment Area (STA) south of Lake Okeechobee.

On the ground C-23/24 STA, JTL & Ed, 2-6-26 On Friday, February 6, 2026 , Ed and I joined a group tour of the C-23/24 Storm Water Treatment Area put on by Mark Perry and the Florida Oceanographic Society.

Partial view of the 10,000 acre C-43 Reservoir, 1/24/26, Ed Lippisch.

What is the Interconnect or C-23 Estuary Discharge Diversion Canal?

Ed Lippisch’s aerial of the C23/24 STA looking east taken 1-6-26 in St.

Belhaven, NC waiting for the nor’easter… Satellite compilation of Chesapeake Bay. https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/landsat-mosaic-chesapeake-bay The winds have finally calmed, the water has lost its anger, and from horizon to sky are long silver clouds t…

Wide beaches of Jekyll Island, GA.

Darcy McNiff Thompson of Southeastern Printing presents Sandra Thurlow with “Best Hard Cover Bound Book” award/certificate – Florida Graphic Alliance 2025..

Finito — Chesapeake or bust!