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This year’s exceptionally warm Autumn weather in Sydney and the whole of Australia doesn’t just mean we get to save on heating energy bills – we get to go to the beach mid-May and Winter officially starts 1 June! Hard to beat this one. The surf’s up, the sun’s up and I’m down, on the sand.
Fantastic shot, hard to believe you are near a city!
It’s been a chilly week in England; the rain was expected, but I’m more surprised by the fact that it keeps hailing. Over the winter, I coped with the cold by thinking of our 110-degree stay in Las Vegas over the summer. And now, as my teeth chatter during my wanders around Birmingham, I can’t help thinking about a very warm day that I had last month during my stay in Florida.
As somebody who doesn’t like swimming, dislikes spending too much time in the sun because of sensitive skin, and is actively terrified of going in the ocean (our beach vacations have always coincided with sting ray mating season), I shouldn’t have had much motivation for wanting to spend a day on Anna Maria Island. However, I was in a mood for some sort of adventure, and I decided that an afternoon at the beach was just what I needed.
After slathering myself with sunscreen and grabbing a big sunhat, I was ready for a day with the sand, the ocean, and my Josh. We started our trek at the north tip of the island, determined to wander along and find as many scenic views as possible.
The views of the ocean were beautiful. Despite my fear of swimming in them, I absolutely love being near oceans, and the Gulf Coast of Florida was no different. And after a cold, dry winter in Ohio, I was very glad for warm weather on a beach.
Awesome shot, and proof that you don’t have to be a surfer or a swimmer to enjoy the beach!
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bare feet, a rake or two, and a steady vision
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And here is a video about Jim Denevan and his art.
Clare’s, to be exact: imprinted on the sand of Home Beach, North Stradbroke Island.
Nice shot!
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“Photo taken by a Broken Light Collective contributor with a mood disorder who experiences severe depression, anxiety, and panic attacks. She enjoys taking photos to express herself and her moods and emotions.
In her words: Sometimes it is easy to hold on to negative thoughts and feelings, but I know that those thoughts and feelings can be toxic, and that I need to let them go. I need to let them be washed away like waves over sand, so that I can be a healthy and productive person, and keep the important people in my life. I must fight to cultivate and nurture loving relationships, even when everything inside of me wants to shut down and push everyone away. I must learn to let myself fully love and be loved, and to let go of everything that keeps me from achieving that.“
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Beautiful shot, and very determined words!
Nice shot, looks very sculptural!
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I arrived in Cebu without any problems and spent a few days exploring the city, eating lovely food and planning my next move. I met Anna, a Canadian girl who has been traveling for 16 months, and we decided to head to the island of Camiguin together.
We spent a few days exploring by trike or on foot, and then hired motorbikes for a day. Camiguin is known for its volcanoes (which accounts for the black sand) and it’s quite something to ride down the coastal road with a volcano on your left and the cliffs and sea on your right. We visited several sights including the Stations of the Cross (a walk up one of the volcanoes that is decorated with the story of Jesus) and the Sunken Cemetery (it was pushed into the sea by an eruption in the 1870s and you can snorkel around the tombstones). The ride around the island only took a few hours so later in the afternoon we decided to head out to White Island, a sand bar located just offshore.
Great idea for a keepsake!
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After the excessive alcohol consumption and partying, I’ve come to the big chilled island of Koh Lanta for a couple of days, staying in the town of Saladan. The place is also called ‘Little Sweden’ by locals and you’ll see why; many Swedish restaurants are around, and it does indeed bring in the Swedish tourists to boot.. nearly everyone is blonde! I’m meeting up with a few girls whom I’d befriended before; Karis, Alex, Emily and Katrina. Once I arrive, I figure out how small the town actually is, and within 10 minutes I’ve pretty much seen all there is to see. All I can say for this is that I’m glad I had the company of the girls, or I would have been bored bored, so fucking bored! Everything is so relaxed here though; waiting over an hour to board the small ferry will definitely slow your heart rate down to something that’s more common here.
We’re staying in Lanta House; a low cost, awesome guesthouse. You’ll get a nice private room for $4, with a shared bathroom. They offer free tee, coffee and drinking water and the folks who run the place are incredibly friendly also; the woman in particular being very eager to teach guests some Thai. She showed us how to bargain the locals down while being respectful, but unfortunately it seems like a case of too little too late, as I’ll be flying to Malaysia in a couple of days. This place also has two friendly and gorgeous cats that are on leashes in the common room. On top of all of this, they offer cheap bikes /scooters to rent, as well as prices for busses out of the island. I heard that you can also get a cheap beachside hotel, but I fully recommend Lanta House!
Sounds ridiculously cheap!
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Attached is my ‘toe’ photo, recently taken in Antibes (near Nice) on the French Riviera.
Since the beaches are rocky in Nice, I wanted to feel sand between my toes – Voila!
Before I moved to Wellington, like a lot of people before me, I’d been told that it was going to be just like a “mini-Melbourne.”
When I arrived in the middle of winter, Wellington couldn’t have seemed more different from the Melbourne of continuous art and film festivals, craft markets, hidden bars, restaurants and alleyways I remembered. Those first few weeks were a huge anti-culture shock with the constant feeling of being trapped in a tiny city that seemed to only cater to three very specific crowds of corporate (Lampton Quay and onto Thorndon), cool (Cuba Street and Mount Cook ) and cheesy (Courtenay Place). As time went by and the sun came out, I’d begun to act a bit more kiwi about the whole thing and eventually began to confess that I’d developed a little soft spot for the place.
As summer hit, something happened. It turned out that there was a lot of stuff happening over winter after all, but we didn’t see any evidence of it until now. Over the past few weeks there has been free live music at the Botanic Gardens, free outdoor films at Waitangi Park, the extremely unexpected amount of sunny days we’ve had have lead to us launch ourselves off of the waterfront ‘plank’ and the free ambulance building’s diving board, we’ve had visits from both Sea Shepherd’s Bob Barker and Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior, a fancy dress party to rival even the world-famous-in-the-north-of-England Wigan Boxing Day madness at the Sevens rubgy games, markets and fairs at various Wellington suburbs and now there’s what looks like it’s going to be a bloody great Fringe Festival for the next 3 weeks. Wellington, if you must insist of cramming in all of this activity into 3 months of the year, I’m going to need more time off work.
Nice shot!
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The attached picture was shot at the beach in Die Kelders (near Stanford) in the Western Cape, South Africa.
Nice shot, surf looks bright and clean
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I LOVE this idea, I’ve been taking pictures of my feet for as long as I’ve had a camera. Everyone thought I was crazy, but I’m glad to have found the toemail community.
Very good picture, and no, you are never alone with toemail lol
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