Sunday, August 23, 2009

Ocean, Yes

I sat on top of one of the biggest logs on the beach, watching the foam wash in. This log doesn't move, even when the waves splash right up and foam all along the face of it. Must move sometimes, super storm surf and so on; but you have to wonder, how long ago might it have arrived on Rialto Beach, and how long will it last. I'm guessing thousands of years.

There were lots of pelicans, three and three and three and four and two and three, seven pelicans, nine pelicans. Maybe this will be another big year for pelicans moving south. (Last year on September 19th observers tallied more than a thousand around Rialto and La Push, the day before P. and I saw them flying by, flying by.)

Tide Coming In, August 22, 2009 (Click for larger image.)

1 comment:

Sky said...

i can't imagine you living anywhere else but near the ocean.