monday oct 29

First, some beach scenes - I'm really enjoying the rather rutless condition of the west part of the beach

but the lack of ruts will be only temporary, due to the roicks exposed my the nor'easter near the first wrecks. However, the good old boys are working to fix that (see https://youtu.be/B8iDGnYEICs)

Now for some good old trash:

sunday morning: briefly a proper beach then a rape

Saturday afternoon brought extremely high tides - all the way up to the toe of the bluffs - driven by the nor'easter. On sunday morning I ran before the first vehicles raped the beach again and took lots of photos of the beach in the rare state of being a proper beach, devoid of ruts. However, as I returned the first vehicles returned. It's funny how everywhere else in the world we dream of smooth beaches and no-one ever plans a vacation to go and look at ruts. 

The waves scoured deep pits around the big boulders:

and unusual swirls in the sand

Of course the storm brought up a lot of trash, since the oceans and seas of the world are now awash in garbage (apparently soon the weight of the plastic garbage will exceed the weight of the fishes) - but for once the trash wasn't generated by people driving on the beach (no driving was possible yesterday), and I didn't find it in the usual piles of fresh garbage, but instead individual items and fragments scattered randomly over the beach, left by the receding tides. It was very cold wet and windy so I had to leave most of the garbage for the days to come.

here are the tracks of the first beach rapist

Nor'easter

Powerful wind from the east propelled me rapidly west down the beach - more flying than running - but then I realized that the return would be a struggle, so I turned round and started running east again, a battle against wind and rain which I soon gave up, retreating behind the dune line, and barely making it home, sodden and cold. But I did manage to shoot short clip of the waves:



and a shot of a brave rose:

Catch of the Day

crabs and crap

Horseshoe crabs (actually closer to a tick than a true crab) have existed essentially unchanged for over 400 millions years, though I don't think this one is quite that old.

But most of the stuff on the beach yesterday morning was of much more recent, and human, origin:

a rose, and a big dose of garbage

Sunday morning was wet and cold but there are still some beach flowers, such as this Rosa rugosa. I picked up a lot of trash but there was too much for the bags I brought. A lot of people put their trash in bags then toss it into the bushes where it's much more difficult to collect, and even more unsightly, than if they simply left it on the beach.

pebbles and making America great again

Yesterday morning cold, wet, windy and gray, but later in the day became beautiful. Parts of the beach are sandy, and others pebbly and difficult to run on, even without the ruts, and the pattern changes day to day. Here are some pebbles

and of course lot of trash:

yes, even the flag eventually becomes trash