And so it is on this brilliant day, that hundreds of birdwatchers make a pilgrimage to the region to witness the seasonal avian spectacle during the fall Wings Over Water Wildlife Celebration known as WOW.
Baldwin is legally blind and competing in the annual N.C. Lions Visually Impaired Persons (VIP) Fishing Tournament. Each fall, volunteers are paired with legally blind persons for the tournament. Some fish at piers. Others go on head boats into the sounds.
The crew had docked at the Olympus Dive Center to refill its scuba air tanks when a waterspout appeared. The sea-spun funnel had formed quickly in the adjacent channel and began to chum on the surface.
