curiouswombat: (notes from a small island)
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Today the sun has been shining, but it has taken the sea a bit longer to settle. Tomorrow is going too be wet and stormy again, so the weather man says, and so I bring you a bonus picture - snapped this morning, this is a nice day, down at Gansey, looking towards Port Saint Mary. Perhaps still the sort of sea you might not want to go out onto in a rowing boat, though...



Gansey Bay, November 20th 2009



Nice day for surfing though!

Date: 20/11/2009 06:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
It was just so beautiful - and when I do the pic post on Sunday you will be able to see what a contrast it was to yesterday.

Date: 20/11/2009 05:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zanthinegirl.livejournal.com
What a gorgeous day! I'm jealous. The ocean looks so inviting! It's grey and sort of ominous looking from my house-- which reflects the cold, windy, drizzle, but isn't nearly as scenic!

Date: 20/11/2009 06:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
It was not really inviting - the water would have been very cold!

Date: 20/11/2009 05:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] julia-here.livejournal.com
Nice day for surfing though!

This was my first thought, too- or sailboarding! I've seen sailboarders on Lake Washington (the big freshwater fjord east of Seattle) and on the Columbia at Hood River when there's chop like that; once you've got the neoprene to survive the average water temperature, air temps aren't much of a problem.

Julia, a couple of years ago a guy got caught in an offshore current at Westport and ended up blown all the way to the Quinault Reservation in a November storm. Surfers got no sense.

Date: 20/11/2009 06:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
I was quite surprised that there weren't any surfers - there quite often are on that stretch of coast. But I think I'd need not only the neoprene but a full set of thermals underneath...

But I wouldn't be surprised if they were down there surfing at lunchtime.

Date: 20/11/2009 05:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] evilawyer.livejournal.com
Those do look like good surfing!

I don't think I've ever seen green hills reflected in the ocean like that before. Nice effect.

Date: 20/11/2009 06:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
Our hills are reflected in the sea so often that I hadn't even thought about it!

Date: 20/11/2009 06:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fenchurche.livejournal.com
Gorgeous!!!

Date: 20/11/2009 06:17 pm (UTC)

Date: 20/11/2009 06:15 pm (UTC)
kathyh: (Default)
From: [personal profile] kathyh
Looks gorgeous. We had a very grey and wet morning here, but it brightened up this afternoon. No beautiful sea to look at though :)

Date: 20/11/2009 06:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
It has been a really bright day today - but I gather it's going to be horrible again tomorrow...

Date: 20/11/2009 06:56 pm (UTC)
jerusha: (Default)
From: [personal profile] jerusha
Wow! That's a gorgeous shot.

Date: 20/11/2009 08:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
Thank you - the sea sort of invites me to take its picture regularly!

Date: 22/11/2009 01:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] patientbear.livejournal.com
And you could take one every day and I'd not get tired of it!

Date: 20/11/2009 07:02 pm (UTC)
deird1: Fred looking pretty and thoughful (Default)
From: [personal profile] deird1
Pretty!

Date: 20/11/2009 08:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
Thank you - yesterday it was not so much pretty as pretty impressive - I'll show you on Sunday.

Date: 20/11/2009 08:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sammywol.livejournal.com
Picturesque! Better for surfing than ferry crossings though I'd guess.

Date: 20/11/2009 08:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
Yep - although the boat did sail today, and must have made reasonable time as she was back at her usual time. Yesterday she didn't go anywhere - Britain was cut off...

Date: 20/11/2009 08:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] inzilbeth-liz.livejournal.com
I can almost smell that sea spray!

Date: 20/11/2009 08:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
Yesterday I tried to take pictures of the really stormy weather - and was so close to smelling the spray that it got all over the lens of the camera!

Date: 20/11/2009 08:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] petzipellepingo.livejournal.com
Looks like stormy weather on Lake St. Clair although usually the water would be grey.

Date: 20/11/2009 08:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
This icon is one I took yesterday...

Date: 20/11/2009 11:39 pm (UTC)
gillo: (Importance of being James)
From: [personal profile] gillo
Pretty - and nice to see some decentish weather for a change.

Date: 21/11/2009 01:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
It's been lovely today - but is, apparently, going to be horrible tomorrow again... :~(

Date: 21/11/2009 12:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] slaymesoftly.livejournal.com
What a gorgeous view and beautiful picture! Thank you for sharing.

Date: 21/11/2009 01:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
My pleasure - sunshine and 'white horses' is a fairly unusual combination around here!

Date: 21/11/2009 12:22 am (UTC)
shirebound: (Default)
From: [personal profile] shirebound
Oh, that's so refreshing!

Date: 21/11/2009 01:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
Thank you - it's my pleasure to share.

Date: 21/11/2009 12:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] missmurchison.livejournal.com
*sigh*

I miss the ocean, living as I do about as far from one as is humanly possible.

Date: 21/11/2009 01:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
I would find it very odd being that far from the sea, I think.

Date: 21/11/2009 02:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] melegyrn.livejournal.com
Ahh, what a sight for sore eyes! Thank you. It was quite wonderful to see this picture today as we continue to have rain and clouds. We've had 4+ wind and rain storms come through here this week. The bay was grey today--everything was grey. So very nice to see blues and greens and...oh, what's it called...sunshine?

Date: 21/11/2009 10:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
Glad to have brightened up your day as well as my own.

Today we are back to heavy grey sky - and when I go out later I will doubtless see heavy grey sea too. It is 10.30 a.m. and we have all the lights on - without them it would not only be too dark to read, but too dark to see what we ate for breakfast etc.

So that brught, blue, day was a welcome respite!

Date: 22/11/2009 01:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] patientbear.livejournal.com
hysterical icon, btw :D

I am not going to make yet ANOTHER post to tell you how beautiful this is, so I'm just saying it here. I LOVE this picture! It was very unusual, at least to this landlubber in the USA!

Date: 22/11/2009 10:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
I mad my winter icon last year - and I like it so much I am keeping it for this year too. Took me a while to get all those people to strip off... :~D

There is more sea in this week's 365 project post - which I will get together this afternoon, when I've taken a picture for today.

Date: 21/11/2009 03:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ayinhara.livejournal.com
That's a beautiful seascape.

Date: 21/11/2009 10:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
Thank you - the sea is such a good subject - it changes so much even when you stand in exactly the same place.

We, so many of us, are blessed in our surroundings - you will have wonderful cityscapes right now (I am right, you are in your NY home for the winter?).

Perhaps we ought to do another Where I Live Day.

Date: 22/11/2009 03:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ayinhara.livejournal.com
Yes, we are in the New York phase of our year. I'd love to do another "Where I Live Day".

Date: 21/11/2009 08:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ozma914.livejournal.com
ooh -- I might freeze to death doing it, but I'd like to play in those waves.

Date: 21/11/2009 10:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
They were good waves - powerful but not overwhelming. This icon is a picture I took the day before - and they were definitely not good waves to play in!

Date: 21/11/2009 11:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ozma914.livejournal.com
When I was a kid, we usually only got to swim in small lakes -- thus, small waves. So we loved diving into big waves whenever we could, and I'm sure there were times we did it when we definitely shouldn't have. I'd like to think I'd be more careful these days!

Date: 21/11/2009 10:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bojojoti.livejournal.com
Such a lovely view!

Date: 21/11/2009 10:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
Thank you. It is one of my favourite views, even though it is simply taken from the side of the road where there is a place to pull in. That bit of road was closed the day before for a couple of hours either side of high tide, and you can see why, as the waves were much higher the day before.

Date: 21/11/2009 11:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hesadevil.livejournal.com
I can see the swell even though it's a long shot. You live in a truly beautiful place.

Date: 21/11/2009 12:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
You'll have to come and visit sometime!

As I've said before, carrying the camera with me all the time, and having people on LJ to share with who don't know the island, has given me a new appreciation of how beautiful it can be.

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