Yes, I’m afraid there’s no deep meaningful title, no alluring phrase when it comes to a day at the beach. It simply is. Wonderful, windy, wet, dirty, smelly and glorious.
This is the beach of my childhood: White Rock beach, so named for the massive white rock at one end near the pier. These days it’s painted white (damn graffiti artists!) but I’m old enough to remember when it was naturally white. Well, whiteish. It’s much more striking of a white these days. Paint helps.
Naturally, a stroll of the beach was required, getting wet all the way up the legs, but hey, that’s why I wore shorts. There’s more seaweed than I remember. Even the rocks are coated.
Amongst the seaweed and crab legs and shells, I also happened to spy a jellyfish floating along (I tended to assume it was dead, but I’ve never seen one that big so up close). Please excuse my hand in the picture, I’m not as good with the camera when I’m wearing sunglasses.
Then it was time to stop for lunch which earned me some very intense local interest.
I had to share. Well, at least the fries. The fish was mine! Fish and chips from Moby Dick‘s right along the waterfront in White Rock. Highly recommend it. Though when you ask for one piece, you get two, ask for two, get three, etc. so be prepared. It took only seconds from when I sat down before I had a congregation of hope surrounding me. Naturally this led to some in-fighting.
After lunch it was time for a little spell working. Just a simple spell of marking my intention into the sand and letting the incoming tide release the spell.
I had meant to take a picture of the tide claiming the spell but alas, the tide was too quick for me and my sunny day distraction. It wasn’t long after this, though, that I came across a young woman doing pretty near the same thing though I doubt she was thinking along the lines of spellwork when she did it. How many wishes have been laid in the sand and offered up to the gods and goddesses of the sea?
And so my day at the beach came to a close as must this post. Here is my final picture of the day. I hope you enjoy.
~Saturn
