An Evening Visit to Frisco

It’s rare that we visit Frisco beach in the evening. Typically that’s a place where we go in the morning or mid day to drive on, surf, kite, or spend time lounging on the beach with family. When Forrest suggested we head there in search of wind for kitesurfing one evening, I grabbed my camera bag and jumped in the truck. While we didn’t find enough wind for him to kite, we found beautiful pieces of nature shining in soft evening light.

Frisco Beach is a south facing beach making it a unique spot along the Atlantic Coast. The sun neither rises nor sets along it’s horizon, and instead bathes the beach in soft light on the edges of day. Well packed sand makes this the ideal beach for driving because there is minimal risk of getting stuck in the thick sand. The area is rich with wildlife, despite its popularity. Fortunately on this quiet evening, the beach goers had packed up and returned home for dinner and the beach was largely deserted. While driving over the beach access road we spotted a curious fawn and mother nibbling the dune grasses. Shorebirds skittered along the coastline, chasing dinner as the tide ebbed in and out. Driving down the beach we came upon a large tree that had washed up in a recent storm. As the light faded, we drove back through the dunes, this time spotting two male deer with fuzzy antlers, just a few feet apart from each other.

While we didn’t find the wind we had hoped for, we found so much more of a connection to our incredible world in just a short drive.