Virginia Breeze

A volunteer from the Virginia Aquarium teaches on our dolphin cruise about dolphins.  I learned that they sleep with half their brain and are aware of any approaching danger with the other half.  They really are amazing creatures.  And if a Genie appeared and asked us if anyone would like to become a dolphin my wife would be overboard in just a few seconds.

, originally uploaded by Davidlind.

Here is what they do at Virginia Beach to combat beach erosion. They suck the sand out of Rudee’s Inlet with a long straw and deposit it on the beach. There it slowly migrates along the beach and (probably) back into Rudee’s Inlet.

“Hi kids. I’m home.”
“Where did you go Dad? You have been gone ten years!”

Oh Sorry. Just listening in on the sands of time having a little conversation. But it seems to work well. I wouldn’t want to be sunbathing near the end of the tube when it starts doing its job. But otherwise we seem to have a nice beach and (hopefully) the next time a really big storm hits the beach will keep the tall buildings from falling over.

Your blogging buddy prays that this will be the case actually.

He’s smiling now. But he won’t be if the beach blower doesn’t perform as expected in the next thirty years.

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Here’s a photo of the other half of the sand management project. If you were having a problem with something stuck in your straw you might want one of these.

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, originally uploaded by Davidlind.

I would not have guessed that my favorite photo this week so far would be a picture of a bus! Sunrises and sunsets! Dolphins! Surfers! Babes!
Nope. It’s a bus. And I am happy about it because it tells me I can
challenge myself to be original and go beyond the obvious with some success.
I wanted to take a photo of the dolphin but there was a mass of confusion in the background. Then the bus came around the bend and I looked at the side of it and realized it was my back drop.
But it wasn’t going to stop! So the final step was actually timing the photo and getting the settings right.

I have been trying with no success to capture the real dolphins out in the water. Hahaha. Beat you this time my little darlings!

And that’s why it’s my favorite photo to date on our vacation. It seems to be gathering some favorable comment on Flickr as well so I may not be the only one.

Beth and I went out early today to a beautiful area south of here on the ocean. It is called the Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge and a more peaceful place is hard to find. Here is a link to the website and some interesting information.

http://www.fws.gov/backbay/

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