Weekly Photo Challenge – Sea
Beach walk – Ponce Inlet, Florida
I was born in a sea port, could swim before I could walk, and the beach has always been my favorite escape.
My preferred place to study was in a sailboat with the sea, the wind, the birds and the occasional dolphin for company. Second best was at the end of our pier (it wasn’t technically “our” pier but it was at the end of our street and I was usually the only one on it, therefore it was mine). Most afternoons I would come home from school and the dogs and I would head down the hill to the beach. We’d walk on the beach, maybe swim a bit, then I’d do my homework at the end of the pier, we’d watch the sunset (which set smack in the middle of Mobile Bay and has ruined me for sunsets anywhere else in the world ever since) and hike back up to our house near the top of the hill. I always thought that should have been reversed – uphill would have been easier first thing rather than after hours of swimming and walking on the beach – but I was much thinner then and now I realize why.
Nothing heals my soul, calms my spirit, or spurs my creativity more than a trip to the beach. I still hold out hope of a beach house in my future.
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That last paragraph sings resoundingly in me! Twice in my life I have been blessed to live by the sea and the only remaining unfulfilled wish in my life is to live by it again…… Lets both wish together 🙂
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Amen!
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“Nothing heals my soul, calms my spirit, or spurs my creativity more than a trip to the beach. I still hold out hope of a beach house in my future.”
A BIG AMEN from me … I spent my summers on Pensacola Beach, and would often drive over from New Orleans, even in the winter months, so I could catch my breath, take my walk, see a sunrise/sunset, listen to the waves and go Ahhhhhh!!! I am spoiled for those white sand beaches as well!!
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P’cola has beautiful beaches as well. Our Marine spent several months at Sacred Heart Hospital when he was a baby. I walked those beaches often.
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When I was growing up, we used to drive to Sanibel Island every couple of years, rent a small cottage and wallow in the beauty. That was before the causeway was built and the shelling was incredible. I’m a mountain person first, but I have to admit that I love the sea, too, and could sit for hours just taking it in and relaxing.
janet
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I cannot believe we’ve lived in Florida for over 20 years and have yet to make it to Sanibel. Putting it on the list right now. I’m a beach person first, but while stationed in Colorado I did fall in love with the Rockies.
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I can relate to your finding solute on the beach. My wife and I lived just north of Los Angeles for many years She worked 4 – 10’s and when I was retired I would take our motor home up to Ventura on Thursday morning ,come home, when she got off work we would head for Ventura. We did that about 3 out 0f 4 week ends a month. In January and February when it was clod we still went because it was so peaceful. I forgot to mention that we were parked along side of the ocean.
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That sounds heavenly!
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