My dog wanders near the dunes. A couple approaches her with a large black Labrador Retriever. My dog slinks away. The big dog starts toward me, as if to say hello, then walks into the water and plops down.
Because it’s there, I guess.
Category: beach
The mirage ships
Weeks away from being here five years, walking most days with dogs to the beach, and I’ve never seen this. We’ve had a couple lovely days in the mid to high 70s (°F), but wet and colder weather is due to return presently.
Mont Saint-Michel
Well, sort of. Not my doing. I like the little posts lining the entrance.
Shadow
Brazil in flames?
I left the house about the time of the start of the World Cup semi-final match between Germany and host Brazil. On my walk, I saw something burning in the east, smoke plume extending far over the water.
When I got back to the house, I could scarcely believe it: Germany ahead at the half 5-0. I looked more carefully at another photo.
No, the smoke was between us and Piriápolis. And besides, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, where the match was played, is northeast, not east, of us.
But I expect for the Brazilians, not only has their chance to win the World Cup gone up in smoke, so has their national pride. It wouldn’t surprise me that the burn from this will be worse even than their 1950 defeat by their little neighbor Uruguay. Billions of dollars spent, 260 million of which on a stadium that will never again see any significant use after just four games, embarrassing delays and infrastructure failures, and now total, and I do mean total, humiliation at the feet of the flawless German futbol machine.
7-1. A record number of goals scored in a World Cup semi-final match. Ouch, Brazil.
Another rare Glove Fish sighted!
Oh, OK, can’t fool you. Obviously it’s the same Glove Fish, a hundred meters further west on the beach.
However, I did see red and white carnations and candles washed up over several hundred meters. No point letting those go to waste.
When I light them, I will say a silent blessing for whatever their original intended use.
Dead things on the beach today
The very rare Glove Fish.
DTOTB double header—two mysteries
I saw two raptors ahead on the beach. They took off, and flew over me. Large, with a most unusual wing pattern: white on the inside, black on the outside. Not just the flight feathers: a clean line in the middle of the wing. Stranger still, what they dining on appears to be another of the same species. Note the beak (head is bent under).
I have looked through hundreds of birds online and found nothing resembling these, which I would have guessed to be eagles.
Then this:
I’ve seen this DTOTB before — any idea what it is?
Update: river dolphin.
As we like it
Yesterday evening:
just us on the beach.
No one, nothing else, in either direction.
Dreaming, doing
