Southport Magazine

If you’d like to bring a little bit of our the beautiful nature that surrounds us inside your house, but don’t want to clean up after it, we may have just the thing for you! Emma Thomas at The Adventure Kayak Company is selling a collection of nature photos, mostly birds, with all proceeds to benefit the Sea Biscuit Wildlife Shelter. The photos were all captured from inside a kayak on various Adventure Kayak Company tours. 

“Jim Clagett, one of my tour guides, started taking these photographs while we were doing kayak tours,” Thomas said. “They’re from all over Brunswick County, from Winnabow up on Price’s Creek to to the Lockwood Folly in Supply to Oak Island and all the salt marsh creek areas. He took these amazing, beautiful photographs, mainly of birds but a lot of nature photographs too, and I thought this would be a great way to do some fundraising to help Sea Biscuit.”

The Adventure Kayak Company has a long relationship with the Sea Biscuit shelter, our area’s primary wildlife rescue and rehabilitation organization. “We would be out on kayak trips and maybe come across a bird that was stranded or needed some help and we’d reach out to Mary Ellen (Poole, the founder of Sea Biscuit) and quite often some of her volunteers would meet us and try to capture the bird and take it back to Sea Biscuit,” Thomas said. “And then sometimes Mary Ellen will call me and say ‘Can you paddle out and go get this bird.’”

Thomas said that knowing what Mary Ellen and Sea Biscuit do in terms of helping our wildlife and educating residents and visitors about the animals that share our environment made donating these photos to the cause a no brainer. 

The photos are all 8×10, some framed and some just matted. Framed photos are $65 and matted photos are $35. To see the photos or purchase one for yourself, stop by the Adventure Kayak Company, 807-A Howe Street in Southport, on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, or call Emma at 910-454-0607. The photos will been sale through October or until they’re all gone.