Aerial Photography Photo Gallery: Monomoy Island

Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1944 to provide habitat for migrating birds, particularly piping plovers and roseate terns, and also has the second largest nesting colony of common terns on the Atlantic seaboard.

April 5, 2010: Cape Cod and Monomoy Island seal colony. Pilot: Devan Wiebe. Photographer: Charlotte. Lenses: 10.5mm f2.8, 24-70mm f2.8.

Devan and Chris waste water treatment plant river cloverleaf with rush hour traffic highway interchange lake and stream Cessna over Fairhaven Fairhaven Cape Cod Cape Cod golf course cranberry bogs harbor harbor houses and marina shoreline marina northern Monomoy Island beaches and sand channels northern Monomoy northern Monomoy northern Monomoy sand channels islets and sand channels northern Monomoy northern Monomoy northern Monomoy northern Monomoy view south over Monomoy northern Monomoy looking south over the southern end of Monomoy southern Monomoy Island southern Monomoy southern Monomoy, with seals seals hauled out on the eastern shore southern Monomoy southern Monomoy southern Monomoy drainage channels, southern Monomoy eastern shore with seals hauled out eastern shore with seals hauled out seals hauled out on the eastern shore hauled-out seals for miles along the eastern shore southern Monomoy southern Monomoy

11 September 2010: Another aerial photography flight over Monomoy Island and the seal breeding colony island of Muskegut, the westernmost of the two islands that lie between Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard. Charlotte flew this flight herself as an instructional cross-country flight out of Boire Field in Nashua, NH, with Troy DiGiovanni as CFI. Troy handled the controls during the photography runs, and Charlotte landed at Chatham to make the flight count. Same camera equipment as before with the addition of an 80-200 f2.8 and 12-24 f4, and same Cessna 172 as the previous photo flight, but this time we were hoping to see great white sharks off the seal colony. No such luck, but it was a good time anyway. Visibility was very good, and the mid-day timing allowed for good light penetration into the sea, highlighting the beautiful sand channels off the western shore of Monomoy Island.

Troy in the right seat landing strip at Chatham coastline off chatham sand channels at the northern end of Monomoy Monomoy sand channels Monomoy sand channels Monomoy Monomoy looking south along Monomoy southern end of Monomoy Island looking north from =south of Monomoy lighthouse on Monomoy seals hauled out on the eastern shore of Monomoy seals swimming east of Monomoy Muskegut Island Muskegut Island under the wing sand bar with seals and birds sand bar with seals and birds bird colony on sand br sand bar with seals off Muskegut

14 June 2015: aerial photography of the island with Mike Roman and Jerry Muller.

beach with seals island, beach, sand bars looking south southern tip sand bars southern tip island detail sand bars channel looking south sand bars seals hauled out seals on a sand bar seals on the beach seal colony varied terrain looking south from Chatham looking north spoon-shaped southern tip channel

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