Balls and Walnuts
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First beach day of the season
Yay! I’m done photo-futzing.
After a week of rain, we had sun today, and here at Chez Walnut it was deceptively warm. Jake and I noted the low tide and decided it would be a good beach day. We didn’t account for the wind-chill factor.
Photos below the cut. (Big, non-cropped versions here, at Flickr.)
On the trail leading down to Harris Beach, we saw two snakes. I’m never fast enough to snap photos of the little bastards, but I can always manage to take a photo of the ocean. It can’t slip away.
Ordinarily, my son hates candid photos. But today he was a good sport about it.
I will never figure out how to take photos where the sky stays blue and the rocks don’t turn jet black. Amazing thing, the human eye; consider its dynamic range compared to the best cameras.
Another candid photo of Boy:
Less-than-candid #1,
and less-than-candid #2.
My son, the civil engineer. Call him little Hercules.
My cap protected me from the sun, but not from the wind, which was bitterly cold. It kicked up a good bit of sand, too, which was a pain.
We saw something I had never seen before: three girls (about 10 to 12 years old, I would guess) building a driftwood fort.
No nude sunbathers, though. This ain’t Wreck Beach. But if there had been nude sunbathers, their nipples would have cut glass.
D.
We went down to look at the fishing boats at the government wharf. The sun was warm, but as soon as the wind kicked up, it was like a knife. A knife that had been kept in the freezer.
That’s some nice looking sand you have there. We don’t get much sand around the interior waterways in BC, the tides are too fast. Out on the other side of Vancouver Island there are some vast beaches of soft grey sand, but inside? They are few, and mostly stuck at the ends of bays like at the cottage on Mayne.
Beach day? Bah! That’s months in the future yet. I have to contend with heavy wet snow.
So when are you moving to Manitoba? 😉
Bingo! The rss address you gave me worked like a charm!
I look forward to reading more.
Wonderful pictures of Jake.
Thanks, CD 🙂
Do you have any lens filters? A polarizing lens should help with the sky and stone.