While walking along the beach Sunday morning, Susan and I ran across this impressive four foot tall sand castle. The beach was nearly deserted and no one was near it so it must have been built on Saturday and it survived vandals and the tide over night. It was quite impressive with detailed curving stairs and parapets. It only lacked Rapunzel’s tresses tumbling from the highest window of the top tower.
The first time I visited Port Aransas, TX in January 2008, I fell in love with a tiny shore bird called a sanderling. Sanderlings are small sandpipers that congregate in the ebbing waves in search of tidbits to eat. They dash about so quickly it is difficult to keep up with them. I managed to get a couple of decent shots including one with what appears to be a triple reflection (don’t know how that happened) in my favorite sanderling pose, both its feet off the sand.