It was a warm and windy day. We took a day trip to the beach. This beach is usually not nearly as busy as most of the area beaches because it's got black sand, which can get super hot on the feet and isn't protected by any coves, points or land features. We try to do this once a year. We're not very good about sitting on a beach in the sun, but one of the beaches is on a sandbar and is great fun to wade and float about in. The waters are shallow and warm, unlike this beach. However this one is fun to wade in. Did I say it was windy that day? It was creating crazy waves. We only got our feet wet that day.
I don't think anyone who went in the water on this beach got clean at all. The waves were churning up so much sand they were brown. Here we're standing on the water's edge.
There were a few kids in life jackets bobbing in the waves. None of the adults were brave enough though. We certainly weren't.
Five minutes away, the sandbar beach was still and calm. We ate a picnic on a bench on the pier. We probably should have gone in the water here, but instead we went for ice cream. It was so hot, the ice cream was melting rapidly, making me happy I'd gotten mine in a dish, not a cone. Next time I'll get a kiddy sized one because the single scoop was sooo big!
There's something mesmerizing about waves like that. And what an amazing difference the sandbar made. Doesn't look like swimming water, though.
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