We went to a different beach than we visited last year. This beach was really pretty, but it was different from any beach I've visited before.
First of all, the beach was about 20 steps down from our house. And when high tide was in, there was only about 3 feet of sand left showing at the bottom of those steps.
Jeff and I stood out looking at the stars after dinner Saturday night, and I said to him, "This would be a perfect night to lay a blanket down on the beach and just look at the stars. The only problem is that we'd wake up drowned!"
The stars were beautiful, though. The island is almost all residential, and with it being January, a lot of the houses were empty. So at night, it was pretty dark. But that made the sky just light up. I told Jeff that the sky looked like something you'd see in a movie.
And speaking of movies, have you seen the previews of the movie about the kid who survives a shipwreck and shares a lifeboat with a tiger? Well, I've seen the previews, and at times, the beach looked a lot like those previews. The colors melded together, and you couldn't tell where the sky stopped and the water started.
The weather was very random. It was cold in the morning, warm in the afternoon and the nighttime temperatures were all over the place. The first night, I wore a scarf and gloves. The second night, I didn't even wear a jacket. There was fog, and one afternoon, we got some rain. But for January, we had no complaints at all.
There's nothing to do on this island in the off-season. Actually, there isn't a whole lot of stuff to do when it's in-season. But I was quite fine with that. After having a hard time at work for quite a while, it was nice to sit back and do nothing ... absolutely nothing.
I'd love to go back to the island during the spring or summer, just to see what it's like. Sounds like another trip is on the horizon.
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