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Leaving on a jet plane

Well, it's the last day. We headed down to the beach to take a walk during the sunrise. It's pretty amazing to watch the sun come up and be among the first in the nation to see it. It's hard to show how huge the sun looks when it comes up over the ocean (or any flat horizon) with a point and shoot camera, but I tried. In case you can't tell from the photos (you can't, but pretend) it looks like one of those African safari suns that you see in some nature documentary, all huge and red and shimmering.

When we first got there, I thought I had missed it because it looked like it was already up a little:


But then we saw more light coming. Yea! I love beach sunrises.




And here's the first glimpse. It was massive looking, but you'll have to deal with the smaller, Sony version:


Here's the rest of the rising of the sun and a lot of shots of whatever else I liked. And don't complain if they look too similar. It's my blog and I can post how ever many pictures of the sun as I want.















Clouds started rolling in a little here (we're getting a storm in today):


Man, I'll miss being here.

3 comments:

  1. Great pictures! I love the ones with the birds taking off! I watched so many sunsets at the beach in California over Christmas and I thought the same thing as you but the opposite... It's cool to be the last ones to see it. And then I took a zillion pictures and can't erase any of them even though they all look the same.

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  2. Yeah, the sun on the water is just cool, either coming or going.

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  3. Beautiful pictures! I could almost hear all the sounds that come with them! Welcome back to snow country!

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