This week’s Vitamin Sea report.
Davenport Landing Beach, Davenport, CA. November 12, 2017.
This is a beach I don’t usually go to. Not for any good reason. Maybe because there is a little development on the cove: a few buildings, an abalone farm. And it’s a small beach, although with the tide out you can walk for quite a ways under the cliffs.
But I had the impulse to stop there yesterday. The loop road off Highway 1 was packed with parked cars which seemed odd. The other beach parking areas I passed were not full. Reaching the sand, I discovered there was a surf contest in progress. Surfers, surf kayakers and surf stand-up paddleboarders ran in and out of the water; horns blasted signaling the beginnings and endings of events.
The weather was sublime: cloudless, windless and warm. The waves were shapely and shimmering from the low afternoon sun. I stayed past sunset, to witness the joyful activity and the natural beauty.
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WOW! Fabulous photos!!! Lee really likes them, too. I’ve turned your anemone shot (just before the Oystercatcher) into my screen saver. It’s fabulous!!!!!!!
’Twas great to reconnect on the phone Saturday. I enjoyed our conversation immensely.
oxoxoxo
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Hey Thanks! Anemone screensaver; I like that!
Amazing photos as always, Carla. Makes me want to surf (I never have, except body surfing.) Have you?
Once. I took a surfing lesson, about 10 years ago. I wasn’t very good.