Great Blue Heron Patrols Cape Canaveral Beach Poster

"Great Blue Heron Patrols Cape Canaveral Beach" by Catherine Sherman. A Great Blue Heron patrols the beach of Cape Canaveral, Florida, where several fishermen have set up their poles. The heron is likely hoping for a chance to grab a discarded fish. The great blue heron (Ardea herodias) is a large wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae, common near the shores of open water and in wetlands over most of North America and Central America, as well as the Caribbean and the Galápagos Islands. It's the largest of the North American herons with long legs, a sinuous neck, and thick, dagger-like bill. In the background is Port Canaveral, The John F. Kennedy Space Center and the Cape Canaveral Light House. Port Canaveral is a cruise, cargo, and naval port. It is one of the busiest cruise ports in the world with 4.5 million cruise passengers passing through during 2016. Over 6,000,000 short tons of bulk cargo moves through each year. The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC, originally known as the NASA Launch Operations Center) is one of ten National Aeronautics and Space Administration field centers. Since December 1968, Kennedy Space Center has been NASA's primary launch center of human spaceflight. Launch operations for the Apollo, Skylab and Space Shuttle programs were carried out from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 and managed by KSC. The Cape Canaveral Light is a historic lighthouse on the east coast of the U.S. state of Florida. The light was established in 1848 to warn ships of the dangerous shoals that lie off its coast.