Just thinking
Joe arrived undetected but safely yesterday at 1:52. I was reading about Winston Churchill, Linda was working a crossword puzzle and watching for Joe's red car, a Volvo, but he rode one of his motorcycles down, ten hours. Joe is all his life a biker. Single for some years now, he has three: a Harley, a silver BMW, and the blue BMW he came on this trip. His mom and dad might prefer it was cars or pickup trucks, but it's motorcycles. Well, it's not airplanes, is it, it's not ultralights.
Speaking of, seems years since I've seen anyone fly over in one of those, seen and heard, like a lawnmower in the sky. Are ultralights still a hobby? For where I live, a flying boat model would be ideal for going to Shell Island. Well, maybe Shell Point, with the permanent closing of the Old Pass it's no longer an island, is it.
Me, I'm a Bay person, not a Gulf person. When I was a boy we had three places to swim, no four: the Bay, the Gulf, or Round Lake or Great White Western Lake, plus Indian Bluff up on Bear Creek. My favorites were probably Indian Bluff, swinging out on the heavy rope and dropping into the middle of the icy creek on a hot summer afternoon. If the creek was low my feet would touch the thick braid of roots on the creek bottom. And at the old jetty that was where Landmark Condominiums is now, jumping off into the Bay. I don't recall why, but we always only jumped off the west side, maybe because the water was deeper there.
Because the marina and boats are still there, the above shot obviously was taken before Hurricane Michael. But it shows the old jetty still there, the arrow about where we jumped from. It was just down a block east of the Old Place. Am I missing it this morning? Not going there.
PS. Ross Whitley just added a few minutes ago. Lots of us, that's "we" not "they", around here have extremely high storm anxiety. But Ross is assuring to have around.
T
Speaking of, seems years since I've seen anyone fly over in one of those, seen and heard, like a lawnmower in the sky. Are ultralights still a hobby? For where I live, a flying boat model would be ideal for going to Shell Island. Well, maybe Shell Point, with the permanent closing of the Old Pass it's no longer an island, is it.
Me, I'm a Bay person, not a Gulf person. When I was a boy we had three places to swim, no four: the Bay, the Gulf, or Round Lake or Great White Western Lake, plus Indian Bluff up on Bear Creek. My favorites were probably Indian Bluff, swinging out on the heavy rope and dropping into the middle of the icy creek on a hot summer afternoon. If the creek was low my feet would touch the thick braid of roots on the creek bottom. And at the old jetty that was where Landmark Condominiums is now, jumping off into the Bay. I don't recall why, but we always only jumped off the west side, maybe because the water was deeper there.
Because the marina and boats are still there, the above shot obviously was taken before Hurricane Michael. But it shows the old jetty still there, the arrow about where we jumped from. It was just down a block east of the Old Place. Am I missing it this morning? Not going there.
PS. Ross Whitley just added a few minutes ago. Lots of us, that's "we" not "they", around here have extremely high storm anxiety. But Ross is assuring to have around.
T