My Wanderings 2022 - On my Walk - Low Tide Brings Sea Treasures

Sea Star

Low tide always brings sea life closer to viewing pleasure.  This week I poked, explored and got wet as looked for treasures.....

Part of my pledge to myself this year was to learn new things and have new experiences.  I'm trying to learn more about the plant life and animals I'm seeing.  I have identified what I can, now I will check some resources and work on figuring out some of the others.

Turban snail

Sea urchin

Sea Star

Kelp

 Snail

Sea anemone

Sea Star

Strawberry anemone

Sea Star

Crab and limpets

Natures planter :)

Sea grape

Sea lettuce and sea grape (sea sac)

Sea anemone on post holding wharf

Goose neck barnacle

Purple Sea Urchin

Chiton

Mussels and strawberry anemone

Limpet

Anemone

I'm still working on learning the processes of making videos.  This one is all the treasures of the sea I have spotted during low tide.

 

Week 12 of My Wanderings - Mar 21 - Mar 27, 2022 - Sea Otter on the Boat Dock in Monterey

 What's new??  64 new experiences in 2022

A new experience for each one of my years on the planet.

#14 - My fourteenth new experience this year, happened a la natural.  Ha!  I was walking to the end of the boat dock in Monterey to take photos of the sunrise and when I got to the end of the dock, there lay a sea otter.  It looked like it was sleeping, I backed up and when up higher onto a deck area.  I watched it stretch, look around and cover its eyes to block out the world.  Amazing!  First time I have ever seen a sea otter on the deck of the boat dock!  Woohoo!

Morning Moon

Did I mention that I love my morning walk??

Sunrise

I walked in Carmel one morning this week - when I came around the corner and saw the sunrise I was overwhelmed by the beauty.

The wildlife along the way.

Sea Otter peering over the kelp at me.

Crow and Oystercatcher

Snowy Plover

Sea Lions

Brewer's Blackbird

(I love them, they look like grumpy bird)

Along the coastal trail in Pacific Grove.  The purple "magic carpet" is coming back for the spring.

Always time for a beach walk.  In fact one of my "new habits" is taking time without my camera sometimes when I go to the beach.  I have been meditating by the ocean with much quiet success.

#15 new experience - I have been missing Phil a lot lately, it seems to go in spells.  This time of the year he would grill out some delicious food for dinner.  His grill, that Noelle and I got him for father's day 2018, has been sitting and rusting away.  I went online for solutions, I read about how to turn the gas grill into a charcoal burning grill.  I took all the parts having to do with propane off, added a metal plate and hopefully I will have an image of me grilling out soon.  Phil would have been mighty proud of me, I could feel him smiling at me.

Miss you Phil!

“So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”