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all right 😉 So I’m still at the beach… I figured I’d write a little bit though. I finally started my other weblog the other day… it even got commented on, surprisingly enough 😉 hopefully no one will find it… if you do, and somehow figure out it is me.. tho I don’t know how you would… please don’t tell me. At least then I can *THINK* no one I know is reading it. and that’s just as good.

Anyway, I was walking along the beach the other day…. like up to this place where there’s a big channel… well, it’s actually pretty small, but… you get the idea… it would be a pretty good swim across… and then there’s this island over there… and.. it was low tide…and i saw that there was a sandbar a little ways out …. so I decided to go over to it…. walked about half the way… swam the rest… only a small portion which I couldn’t touch the ground at… anyway, once I got onto the sandbar it was pretty cool… water all around… and like more breaking waves and stuff on the one side facing out into the ocean… it was really cool… nobody else was on it so it was sort of like my own private beach… heh 😉 So after standing around there for awhile I decided I wanted to go over to the aforementioned island… despite all the signs that said “warning… dangerous currents… no lifeguard on duty”… I figured, hey, I can see other people on the island, so why shouldn’t i be able to get there? 😉 plus there were ppl on boats and stuff around there too… I figured (hoped ;)) that should I begin to drown that someone would try and help me 😉 But anyway… as it turned out… the water never really got deep there…. the sandbar sort of continued about 2 feet underwater all the way over to the island. So yeah… when I got there, I just sort of walked around… was tons of birds and stuff everywhere…really cool. Also, I found some shells that were quite nice… one huge one… that was unfortunately slightly broken… I had really wanted it as well. I kept it anyway, but it’s kind of disappointing that it is broken. So with all this, I decided I had best return… as it was like… the lowest point of low tide when I went out there… and if high tide came in whilst I was out there, those dangerous currents would surely make my trip back more difficult 🙂 And… shortly after reentering the water, I almost stepped on a stingray. I was very happy when I noticed it and stopped putting my foot down and it swam away. I saw him again later (or possibly another one, I don’t know) shortly before I left the water. It was an exciting time. Probably the most fun I have had by myself while at the beach. I plan on going back once more before I leave, if at all possible… have to time it right with the tides 😉 But yeah… it’s really awesome to see stuff like that… but then… I just love being at the beach in general… looking out into the ocean and all… it’s incredible to see…. great for those contemplative states of mind… which I am almost always in…. 😉

“Yo toda via espero un milagro,
Yo toda via te espero a ti.
The sunlight is fading,
the longest shadows have been cast.
Like songs from a siren,

hurricanes from the past.
And I am a failure,
defeated every time,
so let me lie here,
a sidewalk for a shrine.

chorus
I am so lonely,
they say you were lonely too.
Dear God be my savior,
I wait for you.

My broken spirit,
is trembling slow.
Park bench for a throne now,
my blanket is the snow.
And I’m being haunted,
by long forgotten dreams,
for hurricanes have,
the bluest eyes I’ve ever seen.

I am pining for your mercy,
for this storm to break,
Lord you are my comfort,
the hope for which I wait.”

-“Hurricanes,” by Five Iron Frenzy