Sleep came in the way of our dreams of covering as much of florida as possible. After a tiring long day at the magic kingdom yesterday, we had to sleep through till atleast 10 AM.
We chose a close destination - the clearwater beach - the initial plan had been to accommodate clearwater beach on the day of the return trip.
Clearwater beach had a very calm sea and you could walk through quite far.We had a very relaxed plan which was to play/hang around in the beach till sunset.
We reached around lunch time and started off with a sea-food pizza lunch at a nice small restaurant with live music.
There were almost no waves at all and that was probably the first striking thing. We walked in through the sea and saw the ground through the water to evaluate the clarity of the water.Regular beach sights - array of small fish ( size of curry leaves) , sea gulls , Niya played in the sand and water freely, I chased sea gulls failing to get good in-flight shots, there were five-six pelicans as well and there were some sights of these birds fishing together in certain sections.Very relaxed time in the beach.
Then, unfortunately we decided to go to the car that was parked on the road to change our wet clothes.By the time we were back, the sunset was over.
I hung around and watched the striking colors that the sun left behind.As dusk set in, there were very few people in the beach. Two cranes were fishing in one section of water that had seeped in inland from the beach.I could see one crane mouth in a medium sized fish.These did help with the disappointment as they were quite close to me and I could watch their behavior closely.
A local walked towards me and asked me : Are you waiting for the sunrise? I asked him whether sunset was there or was it hidden by the clouds. He said it was red and beautiful and I come here every two weeks. He had an apparatus on his shoulder with a long magnetic arm that he was moving along the coast searching for metal that sometimes come to the shore from the ships.
We chose a close destination - the clearwater beach - the initial plan had been to accommodate clearwater beach on the day of the return trip.
Clearwater beach had a very calm sea and you could walk through quite far.We had a very relaxed plan which was to play/hang around in the beach till sunset.
We reached around lunch time and started off with a sea-food pizza lunch at a nice small restaurant with live music.
There were almost no waves at all and that was probably the first striking thing. We walked in through the sea and saw the ground through the water to evaluate the clarity of the water.Regular beach sights - array of small fish ( size of curry leaves) , sea gulls , Niya played in the sand and water freely, I chased sea gulls failing to get good in-flight shots, there were five-six pelicans as well and there were some sights of these birds fishing together in certain sections.Very relaxed time in the beach.
Then, unfortunately we decided to go to the car that was parked on the road to change our wet clothes.By the time we were back, the sunset was over.
I hung around and watched the striking colors that the sun left behind.As dusk set in, there were very few people in the beach. Two cranes were fishing in one section of water that had seeped in inland from the beach.I could see one crane mouth in a medium sized fish.These did help with the disappointment as they were quite close to me and I could watch their behavior closely.
A local walked towards me and asked me : Are you waiting for the sunrise? I asked him whether sunset was there or was it hidden by the clouds. He said it was red and beautiful and I come here every two weeks. He had an apparatus on his shoulder with a long magnetic arm that he was moving along the coast searching for metal that sometimes come to the shore from the ships.
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