Beachscapes

Just a few photos from our recent trip to Florida. I've been to Florida on vacation three times in my life - once we took the kids to Disneyworld, and then we didn't see the state again until a couple years ago, when we stayed in Fort Lauderdale. We loved it so much that we returned to the Miami area a few weeks ago, and these photos are from that trip. I'm still in awe of the beaches in southern Florida - the sand so white, the water so clear, so warm, so vividly blue and green.

I tended to swim/walk on the beach either early or late, trying to avoid the hottest part of the day, which is part of the reason the beaches look so deserted in these photos. But still, even in the middle of the day, they weren't very crowded, which seemed odd since the weather was so perfect and the water so warm. Plus, with all those tall buildings, why weren't there more people around?

Later someone told us that many of them were in foreclosure.

The water was very shallow for a long way out. I love ocean swimming, and most days I spent at least two hours a day in salt water, and another hour in the pool.

Although we were on the beach at sunrise several days, many of them were too cloudy to get good photos. The final day, though, the skies were clear and the sunrise was gorgeous.