As my previous post ended with:
...short on step tally for my morning walk, I ended up back on another jetty at Packery Channel on NORTH Padre Island. Here, the currents are always a bit more menacing on certain days. I enjoy the salty air, the crackling of the waves hitting the huge boulders and watching the spray as the consistent motion ebbs and flows, jutting high, higher in the open air, then...recedes. At first I stopped to get some photos...IN FRONT of the breakers; occasionally requiring me to back up a bit so as not to get soaked. Then, it dawned on me..."Get BEHIND the wave Anni"
Black Clam Shells - Penshell Shell [according to websites, this penshell is "RARE"]
Gulls & Terns - Cormorant Flew into the Surf
Breaker on the Jetty Boulders - Curl
Receding Tide - Behind the Crashing Wave
Ringbilled Gull - Behind the Crashing Wave
The Beginning of the Wave - The End of the Wave
Middle of the Wave - The Peak before Receding
The Peak - The Spray Curl
Walking Back - Storm Clouds toward the Pier...Quickly burning Off
...and close to where I parked the car, remnants of Sand Castles:
Concluding my day with photos taken at Packery Channel on NORTH Padre Island. But, first, bear with me Texas residents...I know you know this already...still, once again, for those who have been to or have heard of SOUTH Padre Island along the Texas Coast, NORTH Padre Island, where I live, is approximately one hundred ninety miles driving distance [about 120 miles as the crow flies] from Port Isabel, Texas and the southern tip of the barrier island [South Padre Island]. Padre Island is the largest of the Texas barrier islands and is the world's longest barrier island. I know there is some confusion with visitors here when I read comments left for me. It's NOT the same areas...so, hope this clears it up somewhat for those that have me and my hometown pictured differently when I mention Padre Island in my posts. If it helps, enlarge the map I provide here to see the span between where I am [NORTH P.I.] and the resort section of Padre Island.
more awesome pictures.
ReplyDeleteYou're awesome too Denise!!
DeleteAh man!? I want to walk on the beach *sulk*
ReplyDeleteCome on over dear one.
DeleteI could feel the spray from those crashing waves. I better dry my hair before I leave for work or it will freeze when I leave for work....lol
ReplyDeletelol
DeleteNothing like frozen hair!
your photos are gorgeous and i love that pin shell. the waves look more like an ocean than the gulf. so beautiful i can smell the salt and here the crashing waves.
ReplyDeleteAt times the Gulf can be a bit treacherous.
DeleteGorgeous water shots indeed, Anni!! That's my favorite place to walk and listen to the roar of those waves!! I'm ready to build a sand castle, too!! Have a wonderful day and a wonderful new week!!
ReplyDeleteI'll watch and take photos of you building your castle!!
DeleteI haven't been to North Padre island since the 1970's. I remember it as kind of a wild and beautiful place. It looks like it still is.
ReplyDeleteWe used to go to South Padre for our beach vacations but have switched over to the red neck riviera of Alabama instead.
There are houses all along the beach highway...you'd be amazed. But yet, still a bit more 'wild' land left.
DeleteLove the waves and surf pictures, Anni! :-)
ReplyDeleteGlad you enjoyed this D J
Deletelovely series of photos and a good selection of birds too
ReplyDeleteThanks.
Deletenice, thank you for sharing this little piece of you
ReplyDeleteThank YOU Martin
DeleteAmazing shots and so fascinating to me.
ReplyDeleteMe too...it's like the sea calls those of us on the shore.
DeleteI like seeing those crashing waves. You captured the movement very well.
ReplyDeleteThanks Michelle.
DeleteI have thought of you so many times during this trip to Galveston! We found some black clam shells on the beach today. My sisters have asked me questions about the shells and birds and such and I always think, "Anni would know this!!!"
ReplyDeleteLOL....I'm sure you and your sisters are having loads of fun.
DeleteGorgeous beach shots.
ReplyDeleteI have always loved and explored the beach! The penshells weren't rare at all on the SC beach. There were many varieties and many were broken. There were also many calico and black scallop shells.This is a good site for shell ID. http://okeefes.org/Sunset_Beach_Shells/index.htm
ReplyDeleteI know...I don't know why the web sites have this shell as 'rare'...we see 'em around here a lot too.
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