Come to the Beach!
Come on, you know you'd like to leave off net-surfing for a few hours and do some of the real thing! Or maybe, like me, you'd just like to stroll along the water's edge, pick up some shells and enjoy the sun. Or perhaps just sit on the beach, dig your toes in the sand, and watch the waves forming and breaking.....
It's a beautiful day, just a few wispy clouds and a strong sea breeze. Sea gulls and terns are wheeling and crying overhead. Sand pipers are scurrying back and forth, dashing toward the water as the waves recede, and then shoreward again, little legs pumping like mad! I get such a kick out of them. A sea gull strolls up, eyeing us sidewise, hoping for a handout. If we give him a piece of bread, there'll be a crowd of them beating the air around us in seconds. (You'd better rub in a little sun tan lotion, if you're going to be here for awhile.)
Take a deep breath, smell the wonderful salty air! It isn't crowded here today, but central Florida's beaches seldom are, compared to those up north. Just a few families, a few groups of little kids building forts and castles in the sand, and 5 or 6 surfers wishing the waves were bigger. Someone's radio is playing, you can just catch a hint of the music now and then, over the sound of the waves.
I love to watch the pelicans. Look at those 4, flying in along the coast line. They skim along the top of the waves in perfect formation, with long, slow beats of their wings, the tips almost, but not quite, touching the water on the downward stroke.
Out in the distance you can see the fishing boats, and an occasional sail boat or catamaran. Occasionally lucky swimmers will catch a glimpse of dolphins leaping out past the waves, or even spot a huge whale tail rising out of the water!
When I'm swimming I often see fairly large fish, and sometimes manta rays, slipping by like gray ghosts in the water.
Here on the beach, the stresses of day to day life just slip away with each receding wave. The sun, and the breeze, and the waves endlessly breaking on the warm sand, are so wonderfully relaxing. Well, I know you want to swim for awhile, go ahead! The tide's in, and the water's warm. You'll love it! I'll be here on the beach when you get back....it was nice to see you! I hope you'll come again soon, and look for me, Zimelza, I'm always here!
Come on, you know you'd like to leave off net-surfing for a few hours and do some of the real thing! Or maybe, like me, you'd just like to stroll along the water's edge, pick up some shells and enjoy the sun. Or perhaps just sit on the beach, dig your toes in the sand, and watch the waves forming and breaking.....
It's a beautiful day, just a few wispy clouds and a strong sea breeze. Sea gulls and terns are wheeling and crying overhead. Sand pipers are scurrying back and forth, dashing toward the water as the waves recede, and then shoreward again, little legs pumping like mad! I get such a kick out of them. A sea gull strolls up, eyeing us sidewise, hoping for a handout. If we give him a piece of bread, there'll be a crowd of them beating the air around us in seconds. (You'd better rub in a little sun tan lotion, if you're going to be here for awhile.)
Take a deep breath, smell the wonderful salty air! It isn't crowded here today, but central Florida's beaches seldom are, compared to those up north. Just a few families, a few groups of little kids building forts and castles in the sand, and 5 or 6 surfers wishing the waves were bigger. Someone's radio is playing, you can just catch a hint of the music now and then, over the sound of the waves.
I love to watch the pelicans. Look at those 4, flying in along the coast line. They skim along the top of the waves in perfect formation, with long, slow beats of their wings, the tips almost, but not quite, touching the water on the downward stroke.
Out in the distance you can see the fishing boats, and an occasional sail boat or catamaran. Occasionally lucky swimmers will catch a glimpse of dolphins leaping out past the waves, or even spot a huge whale tail rising out of the water!
When I'm swimming I often see fairly large fish, and sometimes manta rays, slipping by like gray ghosts in the water.
Well, I know you want to swim for awhile, go ahead! The tide's in, and the water's warm. You'll love it! I'll be here on the beach when you get back....it was nice to see you! I hope you'll come again soon, and look for me, Zimelza, I'm always here!
Here on the beach, the stresses of day to day life just slip away with each receding wave. The sun, and the breeze, and the waves endlessly breaking on the warm sand, are so wonderfully relaxing.
