Beach Stuff

Life's a beach and we were feeling reely fantastic, We had a reely good time walking on the beach. And this man shore looks like he was happy.

The tides have turned, I must tell you this... How do you get a beach body?  Take your body and go to the beach... and if you read while you sunbathe you will be well red.... he he he

Be shore of yourself, don't get tide down. Come out of your shell. Take time to coast and Sea Life's beauty...

Whalecome Back to the Beach

Whalecom Back. No Crabby attitudes Please. be careful looking for shellfish at the beach, you might pull a mussel.

Just let your cares drift away...

Wait Bob, let me fix my hair

Oh for Pete's Sake, I said WAIT

Baywatch she Ain't... but she is 26.7 pounds down.

Longboat Key Beach

We walked on the beach at 7  AM Sunday morning. to the east it was dark as the sun slowly rose, to the west was bright and beautiful over the peaceful gulf waters.
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the earth has music, for those who listen

Longboat Beach - MISC

Bike rack

On the Lighter side:

What was Forrest Gump's email address?

"1forrest1"

knee high foot shower

Yesterday I accidentally swallowed some food coloring. The doctor says I'm OK, but I feel like I've dyed a little inside.

and for Ginny, the shoe cubby holes.

Surf at Longboat

this photo is a combo of surf and a bird photo from yesterday. can you tell i added them using PicMonkey

The foaming breaking waves were only about 5 to 7 inches tall. They look like big waves because I used my long lens to zoom in close.

The color on this one is the true aqua green of the surf

I stood calf high and aimed at them as they broke around me...

What detergent do surfers use to wash their clothes?

"TIDE"

How do surfers say Hi to each other?

they "WAVE"

Birds at Longboat Beach

We saw a flock of maybe 200 birds all in the surf WAITING...watching the 3 fisherman with live bait..

Imagine a long line of all these birds, maybe a quarter mile long and 30 feet wide of beach and surf with all these birds.

Per my friend Holly we saw Royal Terns, Caspian terns, Sandwich Terns, Black backed Gulls, common gulls and Willets

below these guys were digging coquinas (tiny tasty clams) out of the sand

my grandmother used to make soup with these Coquinas that we picked up but I did not taste it. If you search Google Images for Coquinas you can see how tiny they are. The beach across the bridge from Longboat is named Coqunia Beach.

And the gulls were dressed in their tuxedos

JUST FOR YOU

Longboat Beach

Sunday at 7:15 AM Bob and Sandra at the beach.... 

Bob hoofed it down to the water down this path... 

to stand patiently waiting in his "she is taking another photo" stance. 

The flowers were calling my name..

The shoes were calling my name..

They had the cutest cubby holes to leave our shoes in, and it only took me about five minutes to slip off my flip flops and place them in the cubby hole...

Can you guess why it took me five minutes?????

Just in case you are pondering why there is a place to leave our shoes, it is because there is a parking lot and a very long boardwalk to get over the dunes with out destroying them. 

The shoes are left at the beginning of the white sugar sand in order to squiggle our toes in sugar sand and walk barefoot down to the water.

Above is looking to the west and below is looking to the east.. 

There were maybe  10 people  on the whole beach which is about 2 miles long 

TO BE CONTINUED... but then you KNEW that..

The Hut on the beach

unknown visitors

 Hut found on beach at Beer Can Island

Looking in the hut

inside looking out

the window

the roof

The view from the hut

Advice from the ocean.

Be Shore of yourself

come out of your shell

take time to coast

avoid pier pressure

sea life's beauty

don't get tide down.

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Saturday @ Whitney Beach

 Saturday morning we went out for breakfast and then down to our favorite beach, Whitney Beach better known as Beer Can Island.
Click the link for previous post on this beach.
We never know what we will find due to weather that changes it from month to month. We stepped out on the beach where Bob is standing and  below is the path to Beer Can Island UNDER WATER due to high tide.

MadSnapper whined "we can't get there, the tide is in, wahhhhhh and you KNOW I am not wading in water that I can't see what is there, beside my capris will get wet.

Bob says " follow me, see that little path? and takes off through the mangroves.

I follow whining " it will not take us there, you are going the wrong way.."

Bob says "come ON it will take us there ( note he is carrying my shoes for me, so i can madly snap"

Bob says "watch out, sharp stick here, and SEEEEEE, there is the water, we are almost there.

Just a little further he says to the gasping staggering madly snapping snapper...

See: I told you it would take us to the island.

And there it was, our most favorite beach. Beer Can Island on Longboat Key.

Snapper yells "do NOT walk out to the end of that tree" he was, he really was...

UPDATE 7:45 AM Sunday.
Please pray for the family of a 6 year old boy that drowned at this beach yesterday after we left. Pray they will find his body today. He was swept away in the rip currents from the other side of the pass and towards this beach.