Showing posts with label pelicans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pelicans. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Thin on the ground

Lately my posts have more photos than content and there is a reason for that. I've not been in town much, due to rain, haven't been on the streets much, due to dinghying, so what you get from me is pretty insular to my yard, my water roads to town and this side of the hill. It's about to get a whole new shift as I start housesitting for a friend I've never housesat for, for the next couple of weeks. Her description of the critters has me a little nervous, including dogs, cats, chickens and visiting bats. Not visiting inside, I was assured. Yes, yes, I know, they eat mosquitoes. I'm delighted, truly. So life should get interesting in new ways, starting tomorrow.



But since I'm still working on yesterday, here is some of that. I wish I could have gotten a photo of the sardines jumping into my dinghy and leaping over the dock, but I'm not that fast. It was pretty strange and funny though. Like an idiot, I threw them back in instead of keeping them for bait...I know, I wasn't thinking. They just looked so...well, if you've ever had a goldfish, I need say no more. If you've never had a goldfish and plan on having one, don't give your heart away to it or them, like I did with Simon and Garfunkel, lo those many years ago. Trust me, it will only end in tears.



The sardines were driving the pelicans crazy. It was a beautiful thing.











A ship that is a better fit for Culebra - the Westward, one of the semester at sea ships

Friday, July 31, 2009

Last day of July...shhhhh

Amazingly and wonderfully, an uneventful time, climatically speaking, and that's all I'll say about that! The weather has been sultry, a pretty word for humid - think mid-Southern US without the Spanish moss and sweet tea stands. Even when the wind has been honking, it's oven heated air. Then the evenings cool off, yes, that's right, cool off. Not enough to be cold mind you, but enough that you don't go sticky with sweat trying to sleep and it stays that way past the morning shower, so you aren't as wet after you dry off as you were standing under the spray. Nice! Today it is calm and bright.

Up until this morning, bait fish had the birds very excited from first light to last light. Gulls and pelicans have been going crazy with greedy food satisfaction excitement. As dusk came down last evening, the frenzy continued...










People are coming and going on summer-there's-not-much-going-on-here trips. I'm in the planning stages of my own. Rock fever, island fever, itchy feet, call it what you will, it is a time of year to get away for awhile. A time to see new and old faces, catch up with loved ones in person, walk different streets and woods, view different horizons. So hopefully everyone will get a time out that wants one, be it over night or over a few. I'm ready to feel that plane lifting up from the runway...

What's in that...Friday is on hiatus until...until it's not! Anyone is welcome to tell me about their own what's in that though. Guest appearances are a good thing!



And on the adage front...among all the tangles, there is still beauty to be found. Sure, it's a hokey sort of sentiment, but that doesn't mean it isn't true. I think there might be more than a few of us who could use the reminder. I'm first in line, and I'll share.