03 Apr 2007

As is often around here, with little to do on my day off I set out with the purpose of mostly just getting out for a little while. I grabbed my camera and trudged along the beach until I found something interesting, I grabbed my camera from its bag took it out and it promptly fogged up, and so was completely useless. A half hour later it had warmed up enough that I could see though it again and the camera could focus so I started taking picture of whatever caught my fancy. Not too much caught my fancy this day really, until I came upon a standing dead tree which I took several pictures of. Then later on as I was walking back I noticed the bark on some trees along the edges of the beach, these trees live right up onto the very edge of the beach where the tide reaches them during the high tide and much of their roots are exposed to the salt water. From this I have to assume that they are at least somewhat salt tolerant, whatever the case the bark can be interesting to look at due to its various colors, red highlights and broad ridges. A little later on I came across another deceased tree that had been lazing around on the beach long enough that holes had been worn into it by the waves and sand and so I spend a bit of time looking for interesting shots of it. Many of the pictures on this page may not really qualify as great photographs in and of themselves, but they make interesting textures, like the background to this page and like the objects that were photographed they can be quite interesting to look at. Oh and yes those are conical shells you are seeing in some of the pictures and they do have crabs living in them.