A seabird bonanza here for all today!
If one of these photos cannot please you, then you don't love the sea!
Is that right? I have heard some say that they don't like seabirds and this is like saying that you like a can of olives, but not the contents.
Okay, now many don't like olives right, so maybe it is like saying that you like the sky, but not the sun, or the moon.
I love everything of the ocean and here today I am showing you some of my loves!
Come and have a look!
Here's another guy that has scored something to eat, but the competition is fierce over here!
So they gang up on him as he landed with his meal and he was telling them to bug off!
So busy scaring the crowd that the brown bird sneaked in to steal his meal!
Now here' a classy fellow (also 1st picture) and the crowd seemed to stay away from him!
Slipping sideways to avoid an incoming wave!
Yep, you don't want to be tumbled, lunch and all if something like this wave connects with you!
I took this and the next photo of a Kelp gull in flight.
An ocean scene here for you and the beach curves all the way round past the mountains in the distance!
Another shot here of the wave above as it was closing down!
Finally a farewell shot of the beach for you as we left to go back home!
And there you have it, my heart for the sea laid bare her in the post. Sniff and you smell the saty good air, look at the wave breaking and you can hear it's lovely smashing sound. Let your eyes wander over the photos and take a journey with it in your imagination with the cries of seagulls in your ears.
This is life and the ocean tells us about freedom and how to appreciate it!
And That's All Folks!
Note: all photos are my own and you arec free to use them as long as my name "Zac Smith", or "@papilloncharity" is cited.
I would also appreciate it if you notify me that you are using some of the photos!
Camera used: Canon Powershot SX60HS
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Thank you for this delightful trip to the beach cousin Stephen.
I haven't been wet with salt water since probably 2005
When I lived in Brunswick Ga
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Love it @papilloncharity
Thank you for the visit cuzzy @jerrytsuseer
Glad that I could take you for a refresher to the beach.
2005 is a long time ago and I hope that you will get to the beach at sometime in your future.
Blessings!
Hi Cuzzy, I would like that, but I don't see it happening any time soon. I think the nearest ocean front is at least 300 miles away, and beaches in general are not quite opened yet, I think.
Blessings to you Stephen
That is only halfway of a trip that I used to make for a weekend at the sea with my kids when they were small cuzzy @jerrytsuseer.
I really hope you will make a plan once the covid thing is over, as the sea is a wonderful healing place to be.
Take it easy my friend and hope that you have a good weekend!
Then you can take me to YOUR ocean.
Cool and you will be welcome.
Budget for 3 hotel stays and travel as there is about 45 kilometers between us and @jaynie and about 2255 kilometers along the coast between us and @joanstewart
Blessings
Sounds like this is something I could swing and afford, though not knowing a thing
About prices etc over there. At least it is a goal with a definitive result.
Thanks Stephen.
Damn! 2255 km = 1401.192 miles. That's a LONG WAY, I didn't realize SA was such a big place.
South Africa is the 27th biggest country in the world my cuz.
Much cheaper in comparison.
Here's something for you to play with.
http://www.ifitweremyhome.com/compare/listing/ZA
How about that! Thanks for that link
Makes for some interesting reading methinks lol.
I love these photos about the seabirds while they was eating! I've never seen the ocean in real (here in Italy we have beautiful sea, but not an ocean) and everytime I think about it, I think about the power of the nature and about the freedom . Great.
Thank you for the kind visit Lady @silviabenaforti
Are you on the Adriatic sea side of Italy?
In what town are you in Italy?
Here in South Arica which is at the Southern tip of the African continent we have the Indian ocean at the one side and the Atlantic ocean at the other side.
We live near the place where the two oceans meet.
Glad that I could give you some great thoughts in the post my dear friend.
Blessings and hope that you will have a good weekend!
#posh share; https://twitter.com/ZacSmit18068838/status/1276542298684301313?
wow, you can take it close-up. At our place, seabirds cannot be approached, they immediately fly within 20 meters, I have to use a telephoto lens to take pictures.
Thank you.
This place has had many fishermen over the years and they clean the catches from the boats next to the beach.
So the birds have learned to come here and to collect the scraps.
Tourists and locals also buy take-away food from the many restaurants close by and and as they eat, the birds raid them for food hahaha.
So yeah, I can get very close to them.
Maybe you must make a feeding place for them, as they will soon get used to you, knowing that you bring them food?
Take care my friend!
Mine Mine Mine Mine these guys always remind me of the Finding Nemo seagull scene.
Never saw the Nemo thing, but yeah, they are yours, yours, yours. yours, hahaha.
Thank you for this my friend!
Ps. I just watched this short and it's amazing.
Maybe I should edit it into my post?
Or do another post methinks,
Do you have a link?
They are very greedy birds lol.
Hahaha, oh yes and they are prepared to attack to geet their food.
I have seen a few ladies running away from them.
Like a scene from this movie
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056869/
Never saw it, but had a look at the link and the birds will indeed one day take their revenge lol.
Some great action photos, I love the sea as well, pity I live in Gauteng.
Thank you and oh yeah, the best thing we ever did was to move here my friend.
Hope that you guys are well and taking care about this covid thing.
Blessings!
The ocean is so amazing. And the beach is a wonerous place! Thanks for sharing these marvelous photos with The Feathered Friends Community. Oh, and I do love olives.
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I thought that you would enjoy the photos my friend.
We share the love for the ocean and of course for olives hahaha.
Glad that there are many olive farms right here and will soon have and olive tree in our garden.
Blessings, take care and thank you for the tip!
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Who aren't pleased about the sea?!?! Tell me, please. Hahaha! 😂 Just the first picture get me hooked already. Wow! It's a beautiful shot of them feasting for there food. Great captures my friend!!! 😍
I live in an archipelago, surrounded by seas and ocean. But I don't see those birds. 😢 Maybe from time to time but not as many as those in the picture. 😢
Thank you for sharing these my friend. I love them all. I'm a sea lover at ❤.
Well, I can certainly see here that you also love the sea lol.
Thank you and I shared them especially for people that cannot get close to them.
Next time I will post one of them sitting on my hand, whilst eating from my other hand.
Blessings!
Hahaha! 😂 There's no escape in denying. 🤪
Will have to take a drive down and sit in the car park, miss the sea and have not been down since guilt takes over not being able to take Woody along for a walk.
Gulls will be following Sardine run now, if close to the beach always makes for entertaining viewing.
Wishing you a wonderful weekend Stephen.
Somebody has jonered us Lady Joan, as cannot set a foot outside in the driving rain.
So glad that somebody else also feel guilty when they have to leave their loving companion at home.
I saw the sardine run a few times and it is always a spectacular event with people and birds going crazy all over the place.
Maybe you guys can sneak out to see it?
Blessings!
Ahahah! Amazing shots! They're all so sneaky, always looking for a chance to steal each other's food! 🤭
Hahaha, yes they are professionals in the theft of food from their friends and even humans my friend.
Blessings and thank you Sir.
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