Family Day at the Beach

Sunday at the beach......with the family...
sun...surfing...picnics....beach games with the kids....body surfing the breakers....WOW....nothing like a wonderful day at the beach.....I am sure that it happened somewhere today....

we went to the beach for our weekly family outing and the effects of the hurricanes are being felt even here on our little beach....when the weather man is talking about confused surf.....these waves were as confused as a flower girl at a Morman wedding.....great looking waves breaking at about 5 to 6 feet....they just don't know where they are going....they break over, under, and around each other....no way to catch a clean wave to surf....just jump and go and try to make something out of it before you crash because the wave has nowhere to run.....

oh, and those rip currents.......WOW.......they were wicked today.....six foot current in twelve inches...what this means is if you jump 12 inches up to break a wave crest, you come down six feet away from where you left the ground....and then spend the next three waves trying to get back to where you started.....just don't fight it too much....go with the flow because fifty yards down the beach you find yourself standing in knee deep water wandering why you just didn't start here to begin with.....the kid and his sister spent the entire time trying to catch a good wave....the kid's sister stayed close to shore and road the smaller waves while the kid did his best to put his new board to use.....a little rough for using a new board but damn he gave it a good try....he did catch a couple of beauties on the old long board....good close to shore 50 yard runs.... one took him completely to shore next to an elderly couple that watched him the whole time.... the look on their faces was beautiful....pure joy watching a kid enjoy himself at something he is good at.....or maybe that was the look on my face.....anyway he got his day's admission's worth on that wave alone......

Jon-Jon came and joined us for a couple of hours....it was a good time just sitting and watching the beach action with him.....didn't talk alot....don't always have to.....just enjoy the time spent together.....did see a couple of whales we thought were going to beach themselves.....but then they got up and walked away.....that we talked about......of course John came with digital technology and he took some photos that I know will become a blog, or a part of one soon.....

something about a beachrider lowrider.....with spinners too....