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Mon 16th Jan: Beach!


Crinkly

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Just some pics today, no paw commentary (will explain in next entry).

First we went to the station to check on something.

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Then a trundle on the beach.  have a look at the sand.  Very smooth, isnt it?  That was the high tide storm surge we had.   There was a mad out beachcombing, and damage to some of the steps, and the water had reached the sea wall.  Oh, and the last pic is the front of the crazy golf course that we took some pics of a week or so ago.

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Cato was cheerful and active, and his gyppie tum was clearly on the mend

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The black stuff is tiny blobs of hardened oil, from a tanker spill somewhere in the world.  It floats around for ages, breaking into tiny blobs that get hard, then wash up somewhere looking like this.

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Mr Beachcomber and his bag of treasure.

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Crazy golf

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Missysmom

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Lovely walk! Awful from the oil spill, I've seen those in the water before but not on the beach..

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Nice pics!  I love your beach (except for the oil blobs).  I love that you have so many shells lying about.  Our beach here hardly has any.  Looks like Cato and Tara were having a great time on their walk. :) 

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I can see the tiny shells but I'm curious if there are pebbles in that line of shells.  In Oregon, where we go for the summer - agate hunting is very popular.  Of course Oregon is full of rivers, creeks and waterways which eventually spill into the ocean leaving rocks behind.  The first 5 years or so when we were walking on the beaches, I was obsessed with agates.  We bragged and shared our treasures with other rock hounds.  I have 5-6 very large glass vases filled with agates of all sizes and colors.  I have since become bored with the hunt but still occasionally snag one but it has to be big and especially nice to catch my attention!

Are there agates in your rockline?

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No agates at all, i am sorry to say.

we get those little white ones from the first pic all over the place.  And the long thin white ones are cuttlefish.

elsewhere on the beach are little pink ones.  They seem to run in drifts of the same sizes all together.

then there are stones, large and small.

but no agates :(

 

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Well then.......you MUST collect little pink ones!  And make earrings  LOL.  Years ago I had a pair of small pink clam (?) shell earrings that had a tiny pearl in each one.  LOVED those......don't know what happened to them and have been looking for something similar for years.

At our place in Oregon there is one beach....we call it "the pink baby shell beach) where we find tiny pink clamshells but they are too fragile to make into jewelry.  I do have a little collection of them in a small abalone shell.

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