I wanted to shake up my life and go sailing (or learn on the job, so-to-speak) so headed to Florida to crew on a catamaran. This is about how it went or, rather, didn't - and my life since. Hopefully it will lead to a catamaran on the clear aqua blue waters of the Caribbean Sea, watching the sunset, a coconut rum and coke in hand. You must START AT THE BEGINNING of the blog, April 2009, to get the whole story...

Sunday, May 1, 2011

A LONG WALK ON A LONGER BEACH

I walked 5 miles of beach today. It took me over 3 hours because I took my time, looking at everything, taking pictures, stopping for a swim, and one other surprise I will tell you in pictures (with comments).

In fact, let me just tell you it all in pictures:

Where I've just walked from, the white buildings in the center of the picture.

The point ahead, as far as I originally planned to go (I am over halfway there).

So that wasn't really the point... I keep going.


Looking back, wow I've walked a long way - that's where I started way in the distance.

Now I am at the point.

See the waves coming in from two different sides? I decide to walk on. It's too pretty up ahead to stop here.

After about an hour or so of walking on, I became overwhelmed by the beauty of the place and the wonder that I was here to see it...

...and I wept...

...and wept.

I want to keep going so I will walk to that point.

Beach art along the way. Front...

...and back.






It was so sunny out I couldn't see read the screen on my camera at all so had no idea I was in this.

This little guy led me along for a ways before walking behind me and following for a bit.





There was a pelican sitting on a branch but as I got closer...

...he flew away!

About this time I had been walking for two hours and was ready for a rest but I knew if I sat on the sand, I would have a hard time getting up with my bad knee and was wishing there was a lounge chair nearby when... I saw this poking up from the sand from afar and thought it looked like the legs of a lounge chair and as I got closer I knew that was what it was but I figured it would be a ruin and there would be no slats.

I pulled it up out of the sand, washed it off in the sea and not a slat was missing. It was perfect! So...

...I got to relax on a lounge chair for half an hour or so...

...and then a big cloud came and it started to rain. I got up and started walking again and it stopped raining right away - I only got sprinkled on. But it's a good thing it happened or I might never have moved from this spot!

I came to a place where I couldn't keep walking on the beach, there were trees and shrub in the way because the beach had washed away in a storm.

I cut inland on this road and away from the breeze on the beach, so it got very hot very quickly.

The road came to a 'T' and I turned left. Up ahead was something I have wanted to see for myself for some time.

To be continued....
All photographs are mine and not to be copied without express permission from me (click on them to see the large version).
Some names have been changed to protect my butt.



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