Only half the beach today …

Recently I have been doing lots of additional walking around the local area, typically as much as six to seven kilometres a day. The main motivation to get me out so often is to listen to music. Earlier this year, I bought an mp3 player which now has a collection of 5780 files or songs. They been put together by copying (or ripping) from my own CD collection and a generous gift of a couple of thousand or more sent over from Vancouver Island by Buddy Dave.

Some days in addition to the local wander always in the pleasant company of the mp3 player, I also do a beach wander where I only need the agreeable company of the natural coastal surroundings and my camera. Today was one of those, a local wander in the morning and a beach wander in the afternoon. With only half the beach done, my legs were absolutely aching, they just had far too much today and they were telling me that rather loudly and painfully …

So, for the first time ever (I think), I only did half of Crescent Beach and then went off to the islands for a wee look around.

Today’s random pics …

Seagulls and other things …

The wandering conditions on Crescent Beach this morning was absolutely perfect, the tide was on its way out, it was comfortably warm, a slight mist, no wind and the best bit ~ the smell of the sea was strong and probably at its best.

I mentioned in the following blog from October last year,

“Misty, Warm, Still and a generous sprinkling of Silence …”

https://southshoretidewatch.blogspot.com/2022/10/misty-warm-still-and-generous-dose-of.html ~

 …. that “I have detuned a little and lost some of the sensitivity to the smell of the salt air, which always seems so obvious to the out of province visitor.” ~ It is a terribly unfortunate condition, but one I am willing to put up with.

Below are this morning’s pics, they are mostly of some fine-looking seagulls, who appeared to be enjoying the conditions as much as I was ….

Absolute bliss ....

With the tide on its way out, the morning sun shining brightly and an internal debate over whether the wind was cold or warm, I had a fantastic wander on Cherry Hill beach.

It is a location that never disappoints and offers a direct route to happiness via its empty curve of fine grey sand, exposed water and endless sky. The only living souls there this morning was myself and a few Plovers ~ absolute bliss …