Thursday, February 21, 2008

Beach Creatures






The red flag (high hazard) has been fluttering in the breeze the last few days although I think it really should have been the purple one (marine pests). We've had some stormy weather and the waters in the Gulf have been rather rough, stranding unlucky sea creatures along the tide line -- jellyfish one day and cute little crabs and their multiple severed legs the next. The starfish has also lost parts of two of its legs, but one of them has already started to grow back.

Can you believe how wide the beach is? And how uncrowded? Of course, it's not summer yet, but any time you have this much sun and sand and sea to yourself...........you've got to think that life is good - even if you have to share it with the jellyfish (the little guys have a nasty sting). In the second photo that blob in front of the sand dune way down the beach - c'est moi. And I would probably still be there if it weren't raining today.

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