We often go out to the same beach, just to sit and gaze for a while. Listening to the sounds of the crashing waves … or when they’re just lapping the shore … the saline air … the wind — it all comes together like charging our mental batteries.
The tides never fail to make me philosophical. It’s a good thing, being reminded of how small and unimportant I am, in case I’d been thinking otherwise … getting a perspective on things.
We’re not alone about choosing this spot. Quite often there’s a row of cars lined up. It looks like they’re all plugged in for charging … like cellphones 🙂
The name of this beach is Saints’ Rest. There’s a cemetery right above it, that must have the most gorgeous view a cemetery could ever have.
Lovely – appreciative and lovely.
I like the idea of us all plugging in like phones. 🙂
Thank you 🙂
Every human needs a place like this.
True 🙂 it’s soothing for the mind.
There’s something about the ocean and beaches that is soothing for the soul.
Yes! A combination, perhaps … of the air, the sound, the rhythm of the waves …
I love it.
It’s a lovely beach. I prefer the beach outside of summer, it’s much more dramatic and peaceful at the same time.
I agree … in the summertime, I go there to get air when it’s hot. I enjoy stormy days too, when it’s a little wild and the seagulls are crying …
The seagulls are possibly my favourite birds. I associated them with my favourite Scotland.
Oh, I’d LOVE to go to Scotland … to see those green hills … Glencoe …
I’d LOVE to go to Scotland again… to see the cities! I’m an odd fish.
Not odd. Well, I’m odd too; I met a guy from Aberdeen in my youth … briefly, like one evening … and I still remember his name.
Odd is the new normal!
I love the shore, any time of year or day even. The sounds, the smells, the movement of water in and out. It always makes me feel a part of something bigger.
Exactly … you nailed it.
Great pic. The distant headlands, winter flattened grasses, massive driftwood and waterworn rock… And wonderful concept – of recharging…
Say, did you see the beaver-chewn end of the log you peeked under for this photo and is that a fisherman’s net I see tossed up on the rock straight ahead?
It’s neither … no nets out there. Just a bunch of seaweed …
Ahh…
Small screen; )
I agree with you about the calming and restorative effects of being near water, whether it’s a huge body of water or just a small burbling creek. Nature blows away the cobwebs in my head 🙂
Yes, a babbling brook can have the same effect 🙂 and I need to get those cobwebs out!
It’s that time of year for spring cleaning 😉
Beautiful post and photo! 🙂
Saints & Mortals Rest……lol…
What a marvelous place Rebby! used to go down to the Georgian Bay Inlet here & it always calmed me down & I could think things thru’. I am only a few blocks away & have not done this in so long. I think it is timeto start doing this again…I certainly could use a good ‘recharge’!!!
Oh, I hope you’ll do that. It’s something about the whole thing that makes it so soothing, and you get everything into perspective 🙂
I used to have a friend I went there with & we would talk for a few hours. When Michael went off with a woman I just stopped going…silly….
And I have lost touch with so much of Nature between it being ‘ripped away’ here & not going to Native Centre or going out into Nature…I can use my walker to stabilize myself. There really is no excuse….
And perspective is always needed, lol…..