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Category Archives: The Beach
Dog Days of April
Can’t remember a warmer April here on Skinny Island. We normally would have two or three nice days, say topping out in the mid-seventies, then cool and windy for a week, a little rain, cycling like that. This year we’ve … Continue reading
Dawn Patrol
Something offshore spinning this stuff– I don’t know what– but this morning was the best surf of the spring so far. Just past low tide, sun barely up, no wind, and the whole western Atlantic to myself. Dawn patrol, surfer … Continue reading
Leopard Crabs, Royal Terns, and Longer Days
This is a Leopard Crab, claws retracted, and trying to hunker down in the sand to appear inconspicuous. I’ve come across and saved a few empty shells, but he’s the first live one I’ve found. He was blowing bubbles in … Continue reading
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Indigos, Incence, and Black-bellied Plover
These perfect days are becoming sweetly monotonous. Overnight lows in the 50s, daytime highs in the low 80s, cloudless sky, light morning winds mounting to a good sea breeze by late afternoon, windows all open wide. Startled a very big … Continue reading
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Appreciatively Feral
If nothing else the Feral Poet is appreciative of his residency on Skinny Island, and his proximity to the ocean. It “informs and defines his being,” he says. Call to Worship Timeless impermanence: at nine a.m. a south wind turns … Continue reading
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A Dolphin Encounter
This should probably be categorized as just too reverential to be discussed, but we have an obligation at The Skinny Island Post to report what happens within our admittedly narrow (skinny) field of vision, so here goes. There’s an update … Continue reading
Mornings
We are morning people. We figure we’ve seen just about every sunrise of our fifteen years here. What was born out of necessity a long time ago, getting to work, has become habit, with a little pathology thrown in. I … Continue reading
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Transitions, etc.
Two large flights of migratory birds observed winging north out over the ocean this morning. Ducks; Grebes; I couldn’t tell. Other Snow Birds need to follow suit. Many dead Cannonball jelly fish and crabs in surf line. These jellies are … Continue reading
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The Watering
Pre-sun beach walk in light south-west breeze; ocean gray and glassy; opaque, colorless sky; subtle colorations of sand discernible and clear as road signs: red sand soft and giving, slow-going; gray, a firmer cushion; white, sidewalk hard for striding out. … Continue reading
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Mansions and Seductions
Like just about everywhere, I guess, there has been a proliferation of mega-mansions along the waterfronts of Skinny Island in recent years. In most cases a perfectly acceptable, if smaller house, was bull-dozed to make way for a palatial monstrosity … Continue reading
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