We went to SGI last week, I'd heard about an organic farm stand over
there and wanted to go and see what he was selling. Got there a little
early, so went for a walk on the beach. It's hard not to, walk on the
beach that is, when you have a chance to. We got down to the beach and
as far as we could see it looked as if there had been a lot of plastic
bottles blown up on the sand. I was so disgusted. Walked a little
closer and the random bits of blue we saw, weren't plastic bottles after
all. They were something else entirely. So we called the
Gulf Specimen Marine Lab
in Panacea and asked them what we were looking at. We also shot them a
picture via a camera phone (ya gotta love modern technology). They
told us we were looking at Portuguese Man of War Jellyfish. They also
said to not handle them. Gee, I never touch anything like that anyway,
not without knowing what it is. I took lots of pictures, figured this
was as close to them as I wanted to ever get. Luckily there aren't a
lot of people on the beaches this time of year, but we shared our
information with the few we did see.
As you can see there weren't a whole lot of people running up and down the beaches. Just the odd bird.
On the way home we stopped to see a friend, and the Camellia bush was spectacular so I had to take a couple pictures of that as well.
Let me leave you with a picture of some birds hanging out on the rigging on a shrimp boat.
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