Newcastle Island Raccoons

I'm lucky to live just a few minutes from the Brechin boat ramp. Launching the kayaks from this ramp puts me just minutes from Newcastle Island. On this day (2017-06-28), Sabrina and I paddled along the shore of the island keeping an eye out for the inevitable wildlife that comes to dine on the shellfish the low tide leaves bare. It's an "all you eat buffet for raccoons".

Raccoon stays ahead of the kayak...

Eventually this raccoon got tired of us, and found a tree branch to climb away on...

Oyster Catcher having a low tide meal...

Seagull every bit as greedy as the island raccoons...

The beach was pockmarked where the raccoons had dug for oysters, mussels and clams...

He's giving us a little snarl as the kayaking scraping against a nearby barnacle-encrusted rock disturbs his repast...