This morning we packed up the car and took a drive up to the H3 and over to the Air Force Beach -- Bellows Beach to log a few hours at the ocean. Although we're only a mile or so away from the beach from where we live its absolutely packed on the weekends with locals and vacationers alike. Bellows is only open to the public on the weekends, but we didn't have a hard time finding a place to call our own for a few hours. Its one of my favorite beaches -- so pretty and a good place to take the kayak for some ocean surfing.
Looks nice, doesn't it? Looks nice. We had a fun time, how could we not? However, we came away with a bit more than we expected. Nothing major -- just a few bumps/bruises for me and Scott has some nice bruising/slight scrapes around his right eye from contact with the ocean floor (which came from using the boogie board, not the kayak). We're not surprised to tip over in the kayak, its happened before and it'll happen again. Today, every time we paddled in we ended up getting sideways and rolled. We were close on the last time, so close but couldn't quite make it all the way to shore. Ah well, maybe next time. And, I just have to say, 4 foot waves look a lot scarier when you're looking up at them. So, Bellows may have won, but we get some credit for fun.
As we entered the gate today we saw the train pass by. It only runs on Sundays and sometimes we hear it, but we've never seen it. Not quite like the ones at home, yeah?
P.S. If Scott says I wacked him with the paddle don't believe him; it really was the ocean, not me :-)
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