OCEANSIDE HARBOR BETWEEN THE TWO ROCK JETTIES

Below I include a photo of the stingray hit the next day.

Again yesterday, Friday, the tide was super low, and I had a great relaxing swim all by myself! The "all by myself" is crucial to me. 

The water was warmer. Get right in, no need to gird your loins first. Surfline quotes 57 F but no way. More like 64. I should buy a little thermometer (waterproof). I have always used the 'face freezing time' to gauge water temperature. 

Sand crabs are here again. The ones that live inside the round shell; remember the examples in the natural world that follow the 'perfect ratio,' the 1.67 thing, and the Fibonacci numbers. {1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,etcetera}.  The crabs live in that type of shaped shell.

I saw many of them yesterday, along with lots of sand dollars. I gave some to a dad who had a little girl with her plastic yellow bucket for collecting. 

I love that stuff. A complete, unbroken sand dollar with its 'flower petal' design on top hits a good place in my brain. 

My breath is returning gradually--my wind. I feel some leg muscles again. Adelante!

"The first time you quit is the last time you try."