Along the Jetty...

After taking photos of the sunrise and cloud bank on the shore, I picked up my lensball and got back in the car and drove back to the jetty at Packery Channel. The cloud formations were quickly dispersing with the heat from the sun. As the daylight became lighter and brighter, the horizon was a bit hazy [as you can see in this photo taken just above the sand dunes heading toward the Channel trail] with the Saharan sand that has been drifting into the Texas Gulf for most of the midsummer days. -see screenshot shared at top, left- [Yes, Saharan as in African]. And times the entire city is under bad air quality because of the amount coming ashore, eventually reaching north into San Antonio and Dallas at times. I don't mind a dust storm much knowing that the sandy particles, even tho they traverse in the wind currents for 1000s of miles, it's keeping the hurricane and tropical storms out of our area. And, I'll take the dust any day instead of damaging, flooding storms.  Once the dust subsides off the coast of Africa, we always have a hurricane potential.

As I stated in my previous post I published on Tuesday [?} of the sunrise and lensball in the surf photos, I didn't walk long. But I took photos along the jetty trail and at the beach before turning around and driving back home...

At the beach, a common tern
Along the jetty boulders, two Snowy Egrets
A sunflower reaching toward the sunlight
A gentlemen with his bait net, catching minnows for fishing