The Waves Yawn Gently...

Today  is a  warm calm sunny gentle Winters day at the local beach.

Aquamarine blends into tuquoise then turns  deep blue ultramarine.

The gently  lapping sea  fades  into a misty purple hue on the horizon. 

The waves yawn gently in long intervals ...lazily rising in anticipation...

softly frothing and sloshing onto a warm shell studded low tide shore.

A  new  variety  of  sea sponge is found ...light  , wiry and pear shaped.

A  fox  terrier is rolling on its back in its own  world for quite some time.

A woman on the beach smiles noticing  its rolling in something smelly.

"Oh dont worry  its probably a sea sponge"...Alas it was a dead squid!

The sun's  reflection echos a brilliant silver on its purifying fluid surface.....

A  man  with a solid  black dog  walks  briskly  along the waters edge..

The fox terrier approaches them......the black dog cowers unmoving. 

Focus released it eventually runs to its owner some distance away.

They say that South Australian beaches are the prettiest in the world.

Today  thousands of small sea birds are swimming on its deep blue waters 

A wild-life photographer is spotted with a massive lens down the beach.

Where have all these birds migrated from and why are they swarming so?

A local seagull soon provides the answer with a silver pilchard prize catch

flipping the sliver of a  fish over  until it finally disappears into its red beak.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2006

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