ocean beach

so i live about 20 blocks away from the beach. awesome, i know. in the final days of '07, while vanessa was visiting, we decided to go to the beach for a walk with our deliciously healthy smoothies from nearby judahlicious . they were yum-city. anyway, so we're walking on the beach, watching dogs play, avoiding the tide as it nearly soaked our feet several times, examining dead jelly fish that have washed up on the beach, awing over the fact that there are sand dollars all over the place... and then we came across this:


now, i'm not a marine biologist, or whoever it is that studies sand... but i'm pretty sure it's not supposed to be purple. i have absolutely no evidence whatsoever to back this up, but our semi-logical conclusion was that it's some type of pollution. now, if it's from the oil spill in november, or if it's from some other type of pollution, i don't know. what i do know is that the sand is not supposed to be purple. this made me sad . what made me happy again was seeing this gorgeous sunset:

i think that ocean beach is probably one of the better places to watch the sun set here... and now i can better understand why my neighborhood is called 'the sunset district'. also, there were lots of birds and they were really cute, so i took pictures of them while they posed for me: