View of ocean life

There was quite a wind churning up of the sea yesterday. It was more like an ocean than a Lake Atlantic. There wasn't any runners on the beach until we were ready to leave. One guy kept a slow trot back and forth within view. Mom wore her green jacket and I didn't wear any jacket. I enjoyed all the wind blowing on me. I enjoyed the water creeping close to the stairs where you walk down to the beach. I enjoyed the big fuzzy foam that was like soap suds in texture with a touch of brown color building next to the stairway. The stairs leading to the beach were wet and slippery but inviting. I did not go down, but if I did I would descent sideways to avoid slipping. There was a girl down on the beach in a pink two piece bathing suit who was getting her legs all covered with the brownish suds. She was a young pre-teen who was just having a ball challenging the wind and the waves. I caught her in several camera poses facing the ocean as a sole lioness defending her cubs on the beach against the big bad waves of the sea. She seemed to be a natural for the camera. Mom caught her in a slight bending position next to a empty trash barrel post mounded on the shoreline. As I opened my refrigerator door this morning, I realized I forgot to take the leftover pancakes mom had cooked up over the weekend. It was going to be bird food. However, it was way too windy yesterday for a bird to stay still out in the open. The seagulls were flying around, but they did not want to be on the shoreline. Only the sandpiper birds were brave enough to endure the windy weather. The pelicans flew overhead in uniform formation. They were almost like military birds. It is quite rare one would fly overhead alone. The pelicans seemed to be one of the hardest birds to capture on film. This was due to the speed they would fly overhead. I would look at the pelicans from a distance and think I had time, but before I realized how fast they were coming, it was over. The birds were over my head and down so far, I could not get a good camera shot. I was disappointed thinking, the pelican to me seemed one of the most graceful birds soaring in flight. I also missed having my camera available when mom and I went to the North entrance where there was a High School track meet on the shoreline between three local schools. Two were from Daytona Beach. One was Sea breeze and the other Mainland. The colors of their running clothes were red for Sea breeze and blue for Mainland. The third school was the local New Smyrna Beach High School with colors of yellow and black. Mom and I first saw girls jogging, but they seemed to go away and all that was left were the guys. The young high school guys were skinny, bony and not too tall. They were kind of geeky looking with maybe one that looked like the cool dude. Mom and I did not see any one on one races, but we did see they guys jogging down the shoreline in groups. This was an event the television crews missed. Gustavo Almadovar who covered the washing away of the shoreline by the hurricane which brushed up the coastline not too long ago would have made an interesting story out of the track meet.