Picture Shell con't

by | Mar 18, 2015 | Art, Jewelry, Miscellaneous, Nature, The Beach

I decided to add a touch of blue to suggest the ocean. Then finished it as a pendant. I had hoped to find a few more shells suggesting pictures in the arrangement of colors and or patterns, but that did not happen on this trip to Fernandina Beach.  Maybe next...

Dauphine Island

by | Aug 7, 2008 | The Beach, Travel

I just spent a week on Dauphine Island off the coast of Alabama in the Gulf.  I was very curious to know what differences there might be between the Atlantic and the Gulf beaches.  I have to say I was very disappointed with the beach on Dauphine Island.  It is very...

A Ten Sand Dollar Day

by | Jun 24, 2008 | Miscellaneous, The Beach

This time we picked up the sand dollars right in the water as they were being washed ashore.  It looked as if they just glided in underwater.  Sometimes they were left on the sand, but other times another wave would take them back out, if you weren’t quick...

Sharks! and Tellins

by | Jun 22, 2008 | The Beach

  The days are ever so gently blending together so that I no longer remember which day contained which events.  Late afternoon-early evenings at the beach have been wonderful with their full blown breezes to cool the heat.  On one of these days, further south along...