NOTHING LIKE THE OCEAN....

For the love of the ocean.....this is one topic i could non-stop talk about.....i am pretty sure i could live there day in and day out.  All 5 senses come alive...sight, hear, taste, smell and touch. 

 

 

The sight alone of the ocean is such a reminder of all the beauty God blesses us with.

The ocean is amazing to me, because it can be so calm and peaceful, or on another day in another part of the planet, it can be raging with huge crashing waves that are just beautifully stunning

 

to hear the waves crashing, to hear the seagulls calling, to hear sea-lions barking, cranes making their noises, and kids and parents giggles and running from the waves.  Late at night, when no tv, when no one is talking, you can hear each wave breaking, each bit of sand and pebbles hitting against each other. 

 

Now, the sense of taste....i'm not as adventureous as some....Keep it simple for me and I'm happy.  Shrimp, crab, lobster, salmon, tuna....i can do without clams, muscles, shark.  Sometimes and not on purpose i've tasted the salt...

 

Smell....the salt-air, nothing like it.  Even if you were blindfolded, the smell of the ocean would give it away.

 

touch....I'm leary about what i touch in the ocean.  i like to look, but hesitiate to touch!  You never know, it could sting you, bite you, poison you, jump at you, and of coarse startle me.  Plus i have an aquaitance that is a marine biologist....and have followed her love and respect for the ocean and all that it holds. Love you Brit!

 

i love messages in the sand....you can be so creative, your artsie side can come out, and if you've ever wanted to be a articheit, what a place to start...just need your plactic shovel, several different sizes and shapes of buckets, a plastic cup and your imagination. 

 

couldn't resist....see what can happen to you, if you don't put sunscreen on and you are at the ocean for hours! Ouch...

 

On an early morning walk during low tide, as you come around the bend, u can see this...and just imagine you are in Rome, until someone ruins it for you!

 

The sunshine alone makes me happy to be at the ocean, but the water and the waves are a huge factor, as is the colors.  It is just so amazing to me, to be able to see reflections on the water, the life it contains within, the mysterious and adventures that can be had, all on or within the ocean. I think of the great depths of it to the very shallow tide pools and marvel at all the interesting things that can be explored and found within it.

 

Feelings can't help but come into play, at least for me, but i've been told i wear my feelings on my sleeve, surprize surprize!  I can be having just about any kind of day, good or bad, and can always feel better just by being by the ocean or thinking of my next time by the ocean. It is simply beautiful to me....it warms my spirit and my heart always. I love even pictures of it.  I love the lighthouses, i love the islands, i love all the stories and memories that i know of it that have anything to do with the ocean.

 

I have been on Mexico beaches, Southern Calif beaches, and up North also.  I have been in Canada, in Belize, Honduras, Alaska, Galvistien, Texas...crusied the Caribbean...these were trips of a lifetime.  You can imagine how happy i was, whether early morning, or late night and pitch black out, I loved just the sound of the waves..  I have been to Hawaii, loved the clear ocean and how far my eyes could see, all the coral, feeding fish.  I have to say HMB (Halfmoon Bay) is my favoirte.  Granted it is only little over an hour away.... i get to enjoy kite flying, watching surfers, imagining what the ships are loaded with, down in the harbor, watching the fisherman unload their goods.  I love to stroll through the shops, climbing on rocks in jetties, i love the mist of salt air and all the noises, i love the kayacs, the belly boards, the wet suits, the outside showers, frisbee, tossin' a football, being buried with sand, feeling the warm sand betweem my toes, finding a complete sanddollar...

 

As you can probably see, and hopefully can feel even just a little of how i feel, how and what it does to my soul, i encourage you to feel warm sand between your toes, feel the warm sunshine on your back, apprecaite all the living creatures that call the ocean their home. let the child in you build a sandcastle, run from a wave before it gets you, look at the footprints in the sand....walk on to the end of a pier, and simply just be....JUST BE.....

 

Because of HIS AMAZING GRACE.....