Eccentricities @ the beach

So I’m sitting on the beach watching the swimmers and the walkers go by. Noting the admiration I feel for the people who have the strength and the determination to be able to swim in the ocean @7:00am and for the folks who walk along the beach, admiring the beautiful as well as the folks with physical challenges.

While observing life, as I’m apt to do often, I also notice the people who appear to be a bit eccentric. I commented to my husband on a particular couple who walked by, a gentleman with a very long white beard, shorts, t-shirt, hat & bag in hand to collect treasures found along with way. His partner (whether wife, friend or family member, I was not to know), who was wearing shorts, t-shirt, carrying her sandals, who had obviously been in the ocean, tailing a bit behind.  Looking as though she had been for a swim, her entire body was wet including her hair, which was odd because of what she was wearing.

That speculation went on to discuss the experience I call or consider eccentric.  What causes a person to wake up one morning and decide “I’m not going to shave,” then one day realize he had not shaved in over 5 years?! So my husband agreed that maybe that does qualify as being a bit eccentric, and said (I agreed) it would be fun to write a book about the people we encounter who have eccentricities, and what their lives might be like!

What is REALLY funny though is this……So I’m still people watching and I notice a young man who is an employee of a restaurant down the beach a bit, using a rake taking away all of the residual seaweed and flotsam that had been washed onto the beach during the night. While watching him I thought it looked so zen like.  Me being me, I decided to ask him if I could borrow his rake. He was very nice, and reserved his your weird look, and said sure. So there I was 45 minutes later with rake in hand and a beach front that looked more manicured than Pebble Beach! (Maybe a slight exaggeration) I have to tell you I worked up such a ripe arm pit that anyone who was smart would not get within 10 feet of me. I found I had to just laugh out loud at myself.  I mean really, here I was wondering who is it that wakes up one morning and decides they’re not going to shave anymore? Then there is me, who decides I am going to borrow a rake & then rake an entire section of a beach?!

There you have it. Yes, it is true I’m eccentric (or OCD?) Whichever it is, I guess I better get those issues in check, huh?

I had a wonderful time at the beach relaxing and full of discovery!

I thought you might enjoy seeing the fruits of my labor, check out the pics.