009 Sad Tiding on Fiesta Island

 We walked early as our agenda for today is pretty full.




I hope you can see in these photos that the entire disc of the moon is visible, not just the sliver at the left.



I have never seen the tide this high. It was almost to the road. The tide chart showed +7 feet at 6:39am. 



These photos were taken between 6:20-6:30.



I started to take pictures of crosses and domes visible on the hills far above us, it being Sunday morning.







Not realizing my wife was taking pictures of me.

 

Because I am the camera operator on our walks, she says, I don't feature in the pictures often enough.



A beauty shot of the truck so it doesn't feel left out. All these photos are from the NE corner of Fiesta Island, a place we haven't visited for about 5 years. Frankly, this part of the island was boring because it's all fenced off except the road, and a slim sliver of sand not covered by high water.



However, the views as dawn arrived were pretty nice, free from visual distractions. Here we are looking back at downtown.



Since it's a long one-way road and not very safe to walk at this hour, we drove around the corner to the west.



I would title the following photo as CRESCENT



And now we came to the reason for the title of this post. 

Without looking at the tide charts, I can imagine a guy last night saying, "Hey Louie, let's have a couple of cold ones and sleep in the truck. The boat and trailer will be fine where they are."



I can't find the photos right now but I personally have been stuck on this island, and it was no simple matter to get out of soft sand and salt water. So I resisted the urge to wade out there and hitch up my truck to the trailer.



My wife, always a Good Samaritan, but deterred by cold water and soft sand, agreed. We decided to leave the boat alone.



The sun was just coming up as we neared our house.



Since I didn't get any good bird photos on Fiesta Island today, can I insert this one I took through our kitchen window?



Cheers,

Cazalea

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