I have gone several times on the CM County Salt Marsh Safari on the Skimmer so a friend and I decided to try the Duke O'Fl
uke which is a covered pontoon boat that twice a week is used to cruise the back bays and marshes behind Ocean City, Margate and Longport. The trip goes from 6PM until Sunset. The waters are deeper and more open then what we traveled in CMC. You travel to Malibu Beach which features a large colony of nesting
Black Skimmers and then end the cruise by going to one or possibly two islands that have hundreds of egrets and herons nesting/sleeping there at night. You al
so cruise through the waterways seeing
Osprey nests with chicks, many types of
gulls,
Willets plus lots of other birds. For me the highlights were seeing the Black Skimmers skim along the water catching fish along with going to the rookeries. I'd never seen a
Tri-colored Heron and only one
Yellow-crowned Night Herons and we saw both and a number of them. The trip had a nice breeze compared to being on land where it was just another day in the 90's. There was almost a full moon is the sky as we cruised through the waterways and the sunset was beatiful!
uke which is a covered pontoon boat that twice a week is used to cruise the back bays and marshes behind Ocean City, Margate and Longport. The trip goes from 6PM until Sunset. The waters are deeper and more open then what we traveled in CMC. You travel to Malibu Beach which features a large colony of nesting Black Skimmers and then end the cruise by going to one or possibly two islands that have hundreds of egrets and herons nesting/sleeping there at night. You al
so cruise through the waterways seeing Osprey nests with chicks, many types of gulls, Willets plus lots of other birds. For me the highlights were seeing the Black Skimmers skim along the water catching fish along with going to the rookeries. I'd never seen a Tri-colored Heron and only one Yellow-crowned Night Herons and we saw both and a number of them. The trip had a nice breeze compared to being on land where it was just another day in the 90's. There was almost a full moon is the sky as we cruised through the waterways and the sunset was beatiful! 
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