Well, not a normal beach day. More later. Anyway, for once the forecasters were spot on – cloudy in the morning (but no rain) and clearing shortly after 1 PM. In the morning we made another run to Murphy’s for the stuff we forgot to buy yesterday. (Murphy’s is exactly ½ mile from our front door.) Lunch was sandwiches at home – smoked turkey for Elaine and prosciutto for me, both with cheese of course.
When the clouds cleared we decided to find the trail to Indian Beach below Sea Cliff Cottage, the official name of our house. We made it down the trail to the beach and enjoyed a nice walk the length of the beach – about ½ mile in length. Lots of sea gulls, the odd people walking dogs, and one lonely young seal sleeping behind a rock at one end of the beach. There were more seals resting on rocks just off shore. Very enjoyable walk and great for photography with all the sea stacks.
Today’s learning experience: Sea stacks are amazing vertical rock formations standing in the sea that were formed entirely by wind and water. The formation process usually begins when the sea creates cracks in the headland, causing them to later collapse, and forming free-standing stacks. Eventually, the same process that created the sea stacks will also cause them to collapse.
Anyway, here is photographic evidence of today’s beach day. Click on the gallery to bring up a scrollable window with full size pictures – the gallery preview may show just thumbnails of the pictures.
Our House Above the Beach (Look Closely)
Seals On or Near the Beach
Sea Stacks and More
Cocktails as usual on the deck. Dinner at home (leftover Costco meatloaf and mashed potatoes). Tomorrow night we will be visiting Trinidad’s gourmet restaurant. All in all, a great day.
Cheers!
What a great spot you found to stay, Sea Cliff Cottage, easy walks to the beach with all it’s wonders. The best pic has to be the starfish (they have always been a favorite of mine). How lucky you were to have seen it. Keep enjoying your days.
Everyone likes the starfish.
And, yeah, Sea Cliff Cottage is grand.
Thanks, Cindy, for the welcome. It’s great to be back on the blog, and I agree with you on the starfish pic.
Joe and Elaine, you certainly have picked a great house this time. The trail down to the beach looks adventurous and what a great shot back up to the house. The beach photos are beautiful. We’re waiting for the seals to return to Seal Rock at Rye; it should be soon. And I love that there’s a lesson about the sea stacks.
Lovely pix and again, great weather!
Hi Elaine & Joe, Love your beach photos. A real starfish! Haven’t seen one of those in years. Very interesting about the sea stacks. Never even heard of them before. Such an educational blog.
Thank you for donating to Saint Jude’s Children’s Hospital. We will notify Bill’s brother.
Mianne
Weird that your two comments showed up as spam and weren’t posted immediately. I fixed that and you’re good to go again.
Joe
Starfish is my pick photo of the day.
Seems like the starfish was very popular.