Today is………what day???

Monday February 25, 2013
Site 49, Sebastian Inlet State Park
Vero Beach, Florida

 

 

The days are all beginning to run together. 

And I don’t mean that in a bad way. It’s actually pretty Zen.

I wake up in time to see the sun rise.  I run or I don’t and I have breakfast and go to the beach.    And I see what is there.  Often the same cast of surfers and birds and sometimes someone new.   My spot is always somewhat different even though it is in about the same place.  The waves and the wind and the sun are unique each day.

 

 

 

I call him kayak man.  He’s a favorite of mine.

  

 

 

 

I’m thinking these are willets. 

Somebody confirm or deny please.
They aren’t as common as the Black Skimmers, the gulls and the Royal Terns.  Or as consistent as the kayak man or Longboard.

 

 

I love to watch Longboard surf.

He makes it look SO easy and he gets longer rides than anyone else.  .  I wonder if that’s because his board is much longer than the ones most others use.  He just slides right up on the wave without paddling frantically.  He’s a very graceful and still exciting surfer.  I start singing Beach Boys songs when he shows up.  ‘Surfin’ USA’ !!

 

 

 

 

 

GOOD GRIEF what is THIS??

Well here’s something I have never seen here before or in a very long time anywhere actually.  The noise sounds like a WWII bomber headed straight for me.  It is LOUD and scares the birds so badly they take off into the air.  I look out beneath the umbrella and….

 

 

 

 

The day winds down to evening.

I’ve been here at Sebastian Inlet long enough to know that there are dolphins who have a routine too.   They are out in the inlet catching fish on their way back to the ocean at just about dusk.  I almost always see 1 or 2 or 3.  They are so exciting to see even if they don’t make very exciting pictures.  It’s hard to catch them in a photograph so I’m pretty proud of these three aren’t honestly aren’t just 3 closer pictures of the same dolphin.

 

 

 

 

        

 

The sunset looks different every few minutes as it sinks lower and lower in the sky.  The light changes as the clouds change.  When I look at the pictures it seems as though they can’t all be from the same short half an hour time period but they are.

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

It really is wonderful to be in the same place long enough to learn to know it and to establish a comforting routine even if I don’t always know what day it is.   They are all the same and all different and all divine.