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These are just a few photos from this morning's swim at the Overstrand/Sidestrand border:
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| 9:00 am this morning |
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| More crab catching |
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| This is where I set down for my swim |
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| I watched sea-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate, or something... |
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| End of the line at Sidestrand, with Trimingham in the distance |
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| Ew. See what I mean? I didn't realise this cormorant was clearing out its cloaca when I took this picture |
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| Ah, this is better |
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| Luckily, this seal wasn't anywhere near the stream of cormorant excreta |
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| This tanker full of gilt is too late |
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| Cooeee! |
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You never know, next time I might just post something non-beach related?
I think that middle cormorant was giving his opinion on the state of current events & politics. It's all gone to poop!
ReplyDeleteLove the seal popping up for a view. What a splendid creature! Love the pics of the cormorants lining up & spreading their wings on the glittering sea, as if they're doing an opening musical number for a great performance!
I half expect the man in the boat to stand up & scream, "I'm the king of the world!"
The beach & sea pics are amazing as always.
I think you may be right about that middle cormorant, Eros. As for the others, I'd bring some ear-plugs if you're thinking of sitting through their show!
DeleteI'm thinking we should call you the "Shagmeister."
ReplyDeleteNone of my local birds sit and pose like yours!
Heh! I have them well trained!
Deletethe beach has been wild around here because of the rain and then hurricane hermine! your photos are lovely! xoxoxo
ReplyDeleteOh, Savvy! I'm glad that you're still here and haven't been carried off to Oz!
DeleteI think I saw the band "Cormorant Excreta" as a warm-up for John Cooper-Clarke in about 1979... Jx
ReplyDeleteI think a reunion is in order.
DeleteI'm having the t-shirts made up as we speak.
DeletePut me down for two!
DeleteI hope the crabs were avoided whilst swimming!
ReplyDeleteThey were - I had no nips on my extremities!
DeleteYou seem to be constantly catching crabs. Have you learned nothing?
DeleteIt would seem not.
DeleteIt is nice to see the provision public drying posts for cormorants...
ReplyDeletethe seal may well start a lobby group for a floating sunbed...
Those cormorants have it good around here - at the expense of the seal minority groups!
DeleteVery nice pictures, I especially like the one with the cormorants out for drying, number five, saying something about Tannhäusers Gate. The downside is the constant guano production.
ReplyDeleteI don't think Rutger Hauer took the guano into account in his little "Tears in rain" speech?
DeleteIn fact I did not know that Rutger has improvised this sermon, as I was told from the know-it-all. I always thought Rutger was something like an indestructible hitchhiker, preferably cast for silent roles of the stare-and-let-the-muscles-in-the-cheek-jump-and-vibrate-kind. I am taken by surprise that he uses the word Tannhaeuser, perhaps it has just the right amount of exotic-dangerous-Germanic-sinister smack. Let's face it : Guano would not really bite as well :
Delete"I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Guano Gate."
This sounds silly - like you put a little paper-umbrella in a knock-me-outta-my-damn-boots-cowboy-drink.
And the idea of a "guano Gate" - perhaps a nice summary for Blade Runner (that shall untimely be brought back from the dead, as I hear), for Harrison Ford's career maybe or some politician's "character" - but nothing you want a damn replicant to mutter and hence left stuck in the audience's head - that takes all the fun out of my Soylent Green ...
I didn't realise it was improvised either - not until I read the wiki article. And I didn't realise it was C-beams, and not sea-beams - I've always imagined something like that fifth photo (except with a forbidding Germanic sea fort/castle instead of the cormorants) when Rutger mentions it (and certainly not sea bream, which is a whole other kettle of fish).
DeleteI'm not sure that I'd like a Guano Gate cocktail? Even if it does go well with Soylent Green...
I imagined always some steel parts (c-beams) either sparkling or flying / blasting through the night at said door / gate, a bit WWI-like, kind of "Gate to India" perhaps ...
DeleteDo breams have an opinion on guano ?
Mutters something about cormorant envy.... although, I didn't know cormorants suffered from diarrhoea.
ReplyDeleteBUT, I have now posted something.... not much of a thing, but there you go.
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I've been flogging this dead cormorant for a while now (maybe that's why the live ones have diarrhoea* - anxiety?), so I thought I might as well continue.
DeleteI am excited about your thing!
* I can start spelling the d-word, but don't really know how to stop, so I just copied you. Thanks!
I have just found my solitary cormorant photo.... oh you will laugh.... I will post it next time. I was so thrilled when I took it.... when you see it you will understand my envy.
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I can barely wait! I mean to see your photo, not to laugh at it. And if I do laugh, it will be "with" not "at", I'm sure.
DeleteThe French robot won ?
ReplyDeleteThe battle, yes, but not the war. I'll post about it tomorrow, if I'm not otherwise engaged...
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