After five years, brown waves are starting to look normal. A little.
Category: Nature
General observations, generally during dog walks
No, for real.
You’ll recall that all of five days ago I was noting the extreme and unseasonal heat.
Today, 1 November (equivalent 1 May topside) at 34°46′ south, we are chasing off a chill with the wood stove. It’s not that cold, but the fire feels nice.
Too hot for October
4:00 in the afternoon. This thermometer never gets direct sun, and sits in a well-ventilated area. The end of October equates to the end of April up north.
Just. Ain’t. Raht. Fortunately, we have a stiff breeze blowing, so it’s not that bad.
Lagarto, a.k.a Big Ass Lizard
Update: actually, lagarto simply means lizard, with no reference to size.
This is Jerry, our host today, and owner of the El Nido Hotel in Parque del Plata, armed with alcohol spray bottle to nail the incredibly annoying, biting flies that apparently lay eggs under your skin but we. won’t. go. there.
Os. Car.
No explaining (guineas)
The more you watch and listen to guinea fowl, the less sense they seem to make ….
1/10th of a second
I clicked this photo no more than 1/10th of a second before Huma charged by,
making footprints I did not want in it.
Tadpoles washing out to sea
Another one bites the dust
I noted 2-1/2 years ago the improved beach access, even though the side rails had mostly gone away on the boardwalk nearest us.
I noted a year ago how the dunes had risen to their natural level, depositing a half-meter of sand on top of this boardwalk.
And, 8 months ago, how flooding had overwhelmed the same boardwalk.
Today, I see that — through accident or vandalism — the rail has started to go away. We’re not in heating season, so it may not disappear (as firewood) as quickly as in March 2012.
But probably no reason to think it will be repaired.
Man drawing on beach
A man, 30 years old or so, drawing a figure in the sand with his foot. Maybe he was with the fisherman behind. Couple hundred meters before, another man about the same age, carefully building a sand castle near his two fishing poles, his wife bringing water to help its construction.