Loving Everything Beach

It’s hard to believe we have been in Pedasi for two months already!! When we left home we knew it would be a quiet winter with less “out and about”, and it has been. I am thankful that we are able to be away from the cold, snow and ice. From the beginning our main activity has been beach walks and that hasn’t changed. We have several beaches to choose from and we make the rounds. Our walks are about 4 km, sometimes you come to a pile of rocks and have to turn around. Other beaches you could keep on going….but hey, there is a limit before it gets dark. It is amazing how different the same beach can be from day to day. With low tide you have a ton of hard stand to walk on. At high tide there is barely any beach and you can be slogging through soft sand at a 45 degree angle. On a day when the wind is blowing and there is a lot of beach, the sand is blowing like hard pellets hitting your legs. Just maybe it is a bit of a workout!

The beaches are alive. One day there is a gigantic log rolling back and forth with each wave, the next time you go it is gone. Some days there is a ton of ‘junk’ on the beach (bottles, shoes) and small pieces of plastic. The next trip, the beach is perfectly clean…. no driftwood or garbage.

The number of small creatures that you see also differs on different days. Some days there are hundreds of hermit crabs racing around. As you get close they freeze inside their little shells. There are lots of other shell covered creatures, that I don’t know their names, who keep me thoroughly entertained.

The driftwood is incredibly beautiful. Looking back through my pictures makes me realize just how many I have taken.

We have not seen very many jellyfish, and when we do they are dead!

Yes, beaches are amazing places, and I am so thankful we get to experience them every day. Sometimes we even wear flip flops, but mostly not. Love to keep my feet in the water.

Chau

Ruth