cruise, Feb. 1, tiny island

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On Sunday we went to a tiny cruse-line-owned island.

We had to take a small boat (right, center) from the big boat to the shore.





I want to know what causes this texture on the water. What combination of wind and ???





We have been deposited in that tiny cove seen above, and have walked right through all the tacky touristy shops to the other side of the (tiny) island and this little protected beach. The dark shadows you see on the bottom in these pics are a grass-like plant growing there.





I could watch waves for a long time.









Toes in the water, now I am happy.

I love that we can see the sun on the little ripples of receding water.....





Walking along the edge of sand-meets-water, looking at everything there is to see.







If I lived here, I would know the name of each plant....





And of each shell....

Tiny shell, enormous toes.





See the flight of birds, almost in the center?

I would know their names, too.





Footprints.





I went to look up whether this was flotsam or jetsam, and found out it was neither. Both refer to human junk in the sea, jetsam being stuff that was deliberately abandoned, and flotsam being stuff that was accidentally lost. I don't know what you call it when the stuff originally belonged to Mama Nature.





Moi, tastefully attired against the wind and the sun. You don't see me very often, as the camera is almost always in my hands. I was planning to go in rather deep, so I left the cameras ashore....

It was not a warm day. I wandered in, waist deep, checking to see how badly I wanted to go snorkeling.

I was just as glad it wasn't hot -- that mock turtle was good protection against sunburn!



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