Sunday Selections

Welcome back to Sunday Selections.

Begun way back in the mists of time by Kim of Frog Ponds Rock and now continued by me, with a drastic relaxation of rules.
Originally meant for showcasing old photos lost on your files, never seeing the light of day, the meme has morphed into photos of your choice, new or old, good or not-so-good, anything you please, but nothing rude please.

If you are participating, please leave me a comment so I can buzz along and have a look.

Elephant's Child is taking a well earned break right now, but will be back when she is ready


Last week I found myself with an unexpected day off, so I headed for the beach. I've been away from the water far too long.

After taking a bus to the city, then a train to the beach, my walk began with fish and chips, best fish I ever had, but too many chips. Next time I'll just get the fish.

I'll be walking in this direction until I get tired

this mini train crossing is for the mini train that runs during the summer holidays, from the Semaphore foreshore to Fort Glanville

one of several small boats out in the fishing areas, I hope their catch was good

two empty cargo/container ships heading back out to sea

places to rest, I don't recall seeing these before, not at this beach anyway, I was grateful for a sit down, I'm terribly unfit these days

looking back towards the jetty, which is where I started

this retaining wall is new, only a couple of feet high, but quite long, to hold back the sand from the bike/walking path

lost thongs waiting for their owners to claim them

very informative signage all along the beaches

I love the windswept tree growths along here

here's a closer look at those trunks

there are several of these rope-wrapped poles each showing different types of knots

an interesting collection of washed-up debris, at first I thought that was a fish skeleton in the middle, but a closer looks tells me it is a leaf/frond from one of the Norfolk pines that line our beaches

patterns on the sand

and different patterns a bit further on

a man and his dog passed here and I got to say hello as she jumped up on me, a lovely young golden retriever, all wet from her swim

and of course my feet found their way to the water, stuffed my socks into the toes of my sneakers, then used to laces to tie the sneakers to my backpack, no lost shoes for me.

lovely ripples as the tide began coming in, the jetty is quite far away still, although I was on my way back to it by now.

do you know how hard it is to catch these breaking waves on camera? I must have missed a dozen by the time I got this one.

walking, walking, getting wet up to the knees....