Down by the Ocean

The first thing we see this morning is this ship coming into port.

Our neighbors were leaving this morning, so we went out to say our goodbyes and tell them we'll see them again somewhere on the road. By late afternoon another RV pulled into their place. This place is always busy. We're meeting so many people we can't remember names, so as with all things I want to remember, I started an excel sheet of names of people we meet and where we meet them.

My car has a check engine light, so we took it to a local Toyota dealer and will pick it up tomorrow. Jim had to get a special inspection done for our insurance company to verify that we don't have any damage, so if we make a claim it will be something we just did, not something from the past. We had the inspection done at a NAPA auto parts dealer. There's been too many people turn in claims from old wrecks to get insurance money.

We went to the commissary and I got a hair cut at the base salon. It's the best cut I've had in a very long time. I love beauticians that can cut with a razor, not many can do it anymore.

When we got back to the park I walked down to the beach. It was cooler in the park then on the ocean, which was unusual. There were several people in the water. To see the pictures bigger just click on them.

The tide is out, so there's plenty of beach.

Some sort of cargo ship came in...there's a truck in the middle of this one.

This is the jetty that goes all the way from the Naval station out to the ocean. They're too high to see over so a lot of people climb them and watch sea traffic.
There were two boys and their mother by the jetty. The boys were picking stuff up along the jetty and showed me a bunch of little tiny shells, but there were crabs in them. Their mom said they collect them almost daily, but since they're live creatures they always release them. This is the collection; everything in the bucket is alive.

They also showed me two horseshoe crabs they found. This one was trying to bury itself in the sand.

The bigger one was huge and had barnacles all over it. The mother said it had to be very old to be that big and that covered with barnacles. I learned a lot from them because they've been on base for quite some time. The tide comes in so far that when it goes out a lot of ocean life stays behind along the jetty, along with starfish and sand dollars. People come on the beach as the tide goes out to check out all the living things left behind. The boys put the large crabs back in the ocean.
There was a German Navy ship that came in but I was a bit too late to get a full view of it. But I did get a picture of this container ship.
We talked with some neighbors, then Jim grilled some brats for dinner. I worked on our budget. It's been a rough month, but we expected it would be. It should get better when we spend more time in one place.