This morning - a slight overcast to keep us from cooking on the beach, and a great bit of chop to the surf. It is near noon. I am awake, and just about ready to descend into that maelstrom of the surf for my morning (okay, afternoon) ritual; I have one more cup of coffee to go as I stare out across the broad expanse of the windblown pounding of the surf... Life is good.
A week in, and the weather has been most hospitable. The sun does not feel as hot as it does in Virginia; there is an overall warm and tropical glow to the great orb that is cooled by the off shores breezes that blow through here constantly.
I journey out twice in the day, once to partake of the healing
waters, to clear up the continual and constant bronchitis of the Virginia climate wherein I contract this same and exact phlegmatic complaint each Winter. And once in the evening, to my walk down the beach, to try to record and film the great line of pelicans which form the Chinese Sky Dragon.
An example of that is found on my Youtube here:
THE WILD LIFE OF CENTRAL FLORIDA
(From an upcoming film from Oceans 10 Productions, a subsidiary of Confederate Pictures)
I try to stand at this very spot on some evenings around 7:30 to see how many I can get in a row, flying in from City Island in Daytona Beach, down to the Ponce Inlet sanctuary where they all sleep at night.
The Chinese Sky Dragon of Pelicans
I seem to be tanning correctly. Sun block SPF 50 for most of my stay, and the tanning that I do get is a nice overall brown and not that horrendously painful and godawful lobster red of the tourist class!
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