These pictures were taken 2 weeks ago, but I'm just now getting them off my camera. This beach is called Middles, and it's about a 5 minute drive up across the northern coast from where we're staying. I got here at low tide, and I had an absolute ball playing in the tidal pools. The water was so warm it felt like a bath. The first two pictures were taken from the tidal pools, with me crouching down as far as I could get without ACTUALLY taking a bath (with camera) in the water.
I love the color of the breaking waves in the second picture, and that's pretty much exactly the color of the waves when the sun hits them just right.Incidentally, this is also the beach that I went to with one of my buddies when I was being "taught" how to drive a front-wheel drive car in the sand. This is also where we were stuck for close to 2 hours in the broiling midday sun, trying to lay palm leaves, break apart palettes, and gather found wood to get the car, buried to the front bumper in sand, back out on the road. It worked, I now know exactly how NOT to drive in the sand. I also know that using lengths of nylon cord, rope, and (yes) electrical wire braided together, and with the help of two unbelievably kind (non-english speaking) locals, you can use enough hand gestures to figure out how to tow a car out of the sand!
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those are so neat. the color of the waves is beautiful. did the water start coming back in while you were there? I remember when AJ and I went to training out in san fran and we went down to this old remote beach with lots of huge rocks. We went out on the rocks, not realizing tide was coming in. We barely made it back in. That tide came in fast!!
Are all those rocks covered when tide comes in?
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