This is my post for #freewriters 2144 Tuesday prompt copy of me hosted by @mariannewest and @daily.prompt
The tide is all wrong for getting sandfleas, you either need to go very early or very late in the day. I got up early this morning and drove to the beach. The first beach I went to had sandfleas but they were too small. On the next beach, they had a closed sign on the gate. I drove to Whities Beach and found one small bunch of fleas. So I left there and went to Bonsteel beach, I could not believe it, there were fleas but by now the tide was dropping. I got maybe 6 pulls in them before they disappeared. The tide was getting low too fast it was like someone pulled the plug. I went back to my truck and sat there for a couple of hours, I thought if they were there this morning maybe they would be there again in the afternoon when the tide gets to where it was this morning.
Wishing there was a copy of me, I got tired of sitting in the truck and went back to the beach and picked up shells and rocks while I waited on the tide. There was no one else on the beach.
This guy showed up and was carrying something that I had never seen before, it looked like a ladle with holes in it on an extendable pole. He called it a sand dipper, he said he got it for a birthday present but they sell them on Amazon. He said it is for picking up shells and sea glass. I had picked up several pieces of sea glass so I gave them to him.
A couple of surfers showed up and I was watching them surf. I heard one yell at the other one and point to the east so I kept watching and I saw a huge shark riding in a wave.
I told the guy with the sand dipper that I like to pick up these rocks with holes in them, and he said he did, too. He called them Hag rocks or some people call them Fairy rocks, I did not know there was a name for them.
I have never seen turtle nests this high on the beach, this was the highest one.
The others are halfway up the dune.
I stayed at this beach until 4 o'clock and the tide was still not as high as it was when I got them this morning but I really needed to pee and there was no way that I was going to use the outhouse they have there. I gave what sandfleas I had to a man who was trying to catch them with his hands. I knew he was not going to catch any because I could see they were not there but he was giving it his best effort and I felt bad for him.
When I got to the first beach with a decent bathroom, I was mad when I saw the closed sign was still there, I thought it was closed this morning because I was there early but I guess that was not the case.
I drove to the next beach with a bathroom and there were no cars in the parking lot, I do not like going in the bathrooms at the beach when I am the only person there, but I really had to go.
When I came out of the bathroom, I decided to walk down on the beach to see if any sandfleas were there, at that end of the parking lot a man was sitting in a fold up chair, he had a suitcase with an orange life jacket hanging on it, I found this odd. When I came back from the beach, I asked him if he needed a ride somewhere, he said no thanks he had someone coming. I am still curious about the suitcase and the life jacket at the beach. Did he get dropped off of a boat?
photos are mine
