Beach Visit

With all the rain in the past week, Trish and I had  hardly left the house for several days.  Yesterday morning, when there was a very brief break in falling weather, we decided to ride out to the beach to see if the stormy weather had brought up any good shells.

We drove out to the Lifeguard Beach parking lot, but there were two cars there, so, we decided not to go there.  We drove on up to the Pony Pen lot, but there was one car there and we decided that would make the beach too crowded!   So, we drove on to one of our own favorite access points and parked there with no one  in sight.

When we crossed the dunes to the beach, the ocean was roaring and the tide was very high.  It was clear that it had been all the way up to the dunes in the night.  There were no shells to be found as the high tide was almost totally covering the beach.  We had a lovely walk watching and listening to the big  breakers and being again amazed at their ability to so totally wash clean the world of the beach.

Yesterday’s Stormy Ocean and Freshly Washed Beach...High Tide. 

On the dune crossing we looked at the wild Galardia blooming everywhere.  This is their beginning time of year.

Wild Galardia, locally called ‘Joe Bells’ after a long-ago frequent visitor, Joe Bell, whom legend describes as scattering there seeds all over the island.

As we drove back to our house, it started raining once again promising that the rest of this day would be spent once again indoors.