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Thursday, November 30, 2017

Moonlight on Golden Beach

 One day, soon after we arrived, I woke up early, the moon still up and headed for the beach.


The sky started to lighten as I walked past the big palm trees - they're more used to people coming out to watch the sunset


Then out to the water, where, in one direction, the sky was lightening 


 In the other, the moon with its ghostly silver trail


The familiar spiky trees against the dawn


The birds already out and foraging


In the distance, the fishing pier still standing despite Irma's best efforts


The sun was rising over the airport


But this was something new - a building site where there used to be jungle. The inevitable march of the property developer.


The likely swamp now looks much tamer - with an empty field beside it, shortly to be filled with samey, sorry, desirable new houses. That's Florida these days.


But it was still good to be back.

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