Royalty?
Well it did not feel like it. It was raining hard now and the wind was much sharper on the shore than inland even a quarter of a mile. We walked the boardwalk over the dunes but chose to turn back when this Royal Tern landed a few feet away and sort of said, I’m done too. We walked back toward the shelter of a bathhouse and the high tree canopy right past this tired bird who did not move.