Myrtle Beach Continued...

 

Second post of some more of the pictures taken on the trip to Myrtle Beach, SC.  Most are sunrises and sunsets but a few depict the changing weather that week - rain, rain and lots of rain the first three days.  There was a really windy day which I think I captured with the shot of the sand blowing across the beach which looks like different colored strips in the second and fourth photos.  It stung sister J and my legs as we took our morning constitutional.  The birds didn't seem to mind the weather fluctuations though.  The one photo with what looks like a river running down the beach was just that.  Obviously all the rain that Jochaim brought to the area caused water to drain from the community down to the beach in some cases causing erosion and a nature made "stream" as the water flowed back to the ocean.  The final picture above shows the patterns made in the beach as this water created a path and the dark "stuff" at the top of the picture is actually water.  This water rushed swiftly and because it was so dark and murky it was hard to discern just how deep it was.  Somedays when we wanted to cross the beach to reach an area further up the beach for good shell collecting, we would potter around until we saw someone else cross and then follow their route.  (That is if they made it without any problems.  

We gathered lots of shells each morning on our walks.  One morning there was a woman walking the beach who stopped to talk to us and see what we were collecting.  She was collecting sharks teeth and fossils and very kindly gave me two sharks teeth and the fossilized spine/stinger of a sting ray.  Grandson #2 was the happy recipient of the shells collected as well as the sharks teeth and sting ray tail part.  The only thing I kept was a beautiful sea anemone "shell" that I found on the first day out.  

There will be a third post of a few more pictures from Myrtle Beach and then I will attempt to resume posts of what's been happening since our return and since my retirement.

Hoping you are having a wonderful weekend.  The weather here, while back to normal temperatures after much warmer than usual temps last week, is just gorgeous.  Fall is in full swing; the leaves are almost all off the trees and apples and pumpkins, all signs of fall, abound.