Among the treasures I found on the beach today was this fine piece of driftwood. I thought of taking it home to tie bromeliads onto, but decided it might be a tiny bit difficult to lift. Anyway, the pooch pack had … um … anointed it.
Here we have a typical patch of sand to be examined for shells worth keeping. How many can you spot?
This is what came out of it – and, no, I didn’t sift through. I just used my eyes. The cowrie middle right was particularly difficult to see, as it was partly covered by another fragment. Still don’t spot it in the first shell picture above?
This is it.
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I love going beach-combing with you 😉
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Ah now I understand why you thought my beach looked alien! Very pretty. I drive my whole family nuts with my obsessive searching for cowrie shells. When I was little my Granny told me they were lucky….so I just have to find one whenever I’m on a coral beach 🙂 And sometimes it takes a while….they are hard to spot!
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One needs to train the eye to find them, but when younger my daughters could even spot them from the back of a cantering horse!
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WOW, Col! We don’t get these beautiful shells in Cape Town! Or maybe we do but definitely not in Blouberg!
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I love shells, but that goes with loving the sea, lol! Driftwood can be very light when it has dried out.
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Dried out or not, I think that particular chunk would have presented a challenge to get home! 🙂
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I MISSS the sea…..
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I would hate to be away from it.
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🙂
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looks like my old beach at Woodgate 😉 but your shells are better!
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Depending on the season, the shells can really be wonderful here.
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I love driftwood and that was a spectacular example. Think I might have bribed someone to get it home for me.
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I don’t know how they would have done it. Even a crane truck would bog down.
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Yes, there is a lot to be said for living by the ocean. Maybe one day…..
I have some driftwood the same colour. Though mine is only as long as my forearm, and sits amidst some cacti in a sunny spot in the garden. 🙂
Had no problem ‘dragging’ it to the car when we were last at the beach.
BTW. Seems the link problem is mine. The other laptop does not have any issues, so I wonder what is wrong with mine? Most odd. But at least it is okay for visitors, which is more important. And thanks for the help, Mister N.
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Maybe I was a little overambitious!
Strange indeed.
‘Twas a pleasure!
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Use your noodle…hitch the dogs to the tree the next time.
All that ozone…does your head in after a while.
Uisng IE at the moment, and can cruise Pkaboo no Problem. ‘Tis a bit slow though..
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Slow IE or slow P’kaboo? The one I could try to fix…
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IE. Now that I know that the issue was not with the site I have gone back to Chrome which whizzes through like a charm. I still may do a strip out and overhaul of the installation. We’ll see.
Notice you are poking your head around the door a bit more in Blogville? Good for you!
You’ll be in the Spam Bin before you know it. LOL!
Time to rev up Red Ant maybe and run some Pkaboo related stuff?
Got any ideas for me to do similar over at The Ark’s spot?
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Heh! You’re at fault for a post I wrote! If I hadn’t poked around in Blogville, I wouldn’t have drifted to some new blogs with some new inflammatory topics. ‘s all your fault! 😉
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Main image is very striking: I like the way the eye gets drawn from bottom left to top right by the sweep of the strand, the angle of the tree and the direction your dogs are pointing in. All helps to make you feel in the picture, ready to leap (or clamber, or fall) over the log and explore more of the beach.
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I must admit I took some pains about composing it.
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Yeah, right…(Here, if I did smileys, is where I’d put one, just in case you didn’t realise that my cynicism about your reply wasn’t genuine….)
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Quite one of my most enjoyable past times – scratching through the sand for beautiful shells 😉
I really need to make a plan to get to the ocean!!
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Lovely beach. Carting that tree home with you would be quite a feat! Our sand on the Gulf Coast of Florida is white . . . cool on the feet on a hot summer day. Great shells.
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The tree trunk has been beautifully “sanded”.
I often wonder why some beaches have more shells than others.
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Nice captures Bud… which beach is this..??
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The lucky fish lives there
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What pretty sand! The sand we see in Florida is dark and gray.
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Glad you mentioned it – I noticed that the third picture was looking washed out, and I corrected it. Our sand is fairly coarse with a lot of shingle in it, and it is a nice golden shade.
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How beautiful 🙂
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