After a busy day yesterday, we decided to take it easy this morning. It was a perfect morning to enjoy coffee and breakfast leisurely on the balcony. Because of COVID-19, our hotel didn't have their full hot breakfast but had breads and pastries, oatmeal, yogurt, fruit, coffee and juice which was enough.
Then we headed out to the beach. I decided to try something a little different this time and not drag along my big DSLR camera, so the few photos I did take this morning are all from my iPhone.
We walked about 1.5 miles down the beach, away from all the hustle and bustle of condos and hotels and found a quiet part of the beach where we could lay out. We tried using the cheap umbrella we had just bought at the grocery store but within moments, the wind picked it up and took it down the beach. If a kind gentleman hadn't stopped it, we never would have caught back up with it.
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A black skimmer with a group of laughing gulls
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A couple laughing gulls practicing social distancing
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Here is a small crab that was playing peek-a-boo with my husband as he lay out. So my husband named him Timmy and took a short video of him. We kept seeing glimpses of larger crabs but never could get a photo of one.
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Sandpipers
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The Navarre Beach Fishing Pier - the longest fishing pier in Florida
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Our hotel
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With dew points in the upper 70s and highs in the 80s, mid day gets pretty oppressive outside so we took the chance to enjoy some down time in the room with plans to get back out to the pool or beach again when the sun was a lot lower in the sky.
We went back down to the beach during the golden hour, before sunset to try and get some more bird photos but a 76 degree dew point with a temperature of 83 degrees created some humidity issues with my lens that took a lot longer than normal to defog. So I will end today's post here and enjoy the gulf breeze on our balcony as the last light of the day fades away.
Tomorrow we go home, but not before trying to figure out where all the pelicans hang out so I can photograph them. So far I have only seen them flying in the sky at a distance.