a beach walk with emily

since we are on an island, it goes without saying that we have many different beaches here. 

i love exploring and finding them.

  they are all different, depending on where you live on the island.  

some are pristine white sand beaches, and well groomed.  (tourist resorts).

  some are littered with garbage and unkept completely, 

some have mangroves, 

but lawson rock is one of my favorites.

emily photographing a little palm that was growing amongst the rocks

lawson rock reminds me of being in nova scotia

when the tide is low you can walk out among the rocks 

there are live sea urchins with their long spines hiding along the rocks

you will see many snails there,

beautiful black and white stripped.

but what i love the most is that it is littered

with many many many

tiny little seashells.

i only know of 2 other beaches that have shells.

that is because most of the island is surrounded with the coral reef

but there must be big gaps in the reef that allow the shells to come

to shore.

so 

we walk

we talked

we searched for tiny sea urchins 

and found some.

 

 

a photo from a previous trip to lawson rock.. wanted you to see the urchins

as you can see by the clouds

they had rain in them

we had to take refuge under a big almond tree

once when the rain fell heavy.

it was a lovely afternoon walk.

you can see the dog demon off in the distance

some of you know i am a dog lover

they don't scare me.

usually.

as we were walking i saw this lady off in the distance

walking two dogs.

one dog came running towards me

so i called it over,

reached out my hand so it could smell it

then gently petted his head.

he was happy.

the owner came running over 

and said,

wow demon doesn't usually like people.

then i realized...

oh my goodness that is demon!!

one of the fiercest dogs on the island.

 he has bit many people and the police made them put up a fence around 

their property.

suddenly guess what happened??

i started to feel nervous.

isn't that crazy.

i wasn't afraid until i realized who he was.

fear is like that.

someone once said that fear is:

 

false

      evidence

        appearing 

                                                                              real

when i didn't know it was a mean dog i wasn't afraid

but once i knew I suddenly got very afraid and nervous.

the reality is most likely that

demon senses people's fear and reacts to that.

most of our fear is preconceived or imagined isn't it?

have a fear free day!