Thursday, January 19, 2012

Jan 18-19, 2012 Gulf Shores, Alabama

Nice warm day. I worked on the basket in the lawn chair in the sun again. John rode his bike 12 miles. I rode mine down the the beach for sunset-3 mile round-trip. I am getting better finally. . John met me there and we walked a couple miles. I picked up a bunch more shell pieces for future baskets. Then John  rode back with me.

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John on the beach, sunset

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waves, white sand, pink ocean

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wave art on the sand

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Basket coming along. The shells were a pain to get attached and woven around, but they came out nice.

Today John rode his bike 20 miles today. I am much healthier, but still worked on the basket in the lawn chair-tough days and then rode to the shore myself and watched sunset and walked.  I can’t get enough of the ocean. I also extracted a crab skeleton from the bushes in camp, I think I might use it on a lid for another basket. I put in the a zip lock bag with the shells. Later I picked up the bag and it also had a tiny frog in it. I put the bag open outside so he can exit the bag.

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A moon jelly with shells on the beach, a bunch of little Sanderlings.  I could watch them for hours running everywhere, in and out with the waves.

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If I squint the white sand looks like corduroy snow! The sand here is quartz washed down from the Appalachian mountains .

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The sanderlings found something good to eat here-tons of little foot prints. Usually they are running and their foot prints are just a divot, you can’t see the toes. Here they stood around. Another jelly on the beach. This one was pretty well still formed and fresh.

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few more nice waves shots

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low point of Mississippi, beach primroses

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