December Beach Walk

Photos © Todd Klein.

The weather was nice today for December, in the low 50s, sunny, and no wind, so Ellen and I went for a walk on the beachfront promenade at Sea Isle City. There’s something both beautiful and melancholy about beach towns in the winter, when places like this are almost haunted by the crowds of summer.

This beach entrance shows the footprints of the residents and visitors that are present, and we saw quite a few, but they merely punctuate the landscape.

The gulls are happy, they finally have the place to themselves…but not for long. A few minutes after I took this picture a family came by with a small child who, as usual, wanted to chase the gulls.

Well, they’re used to it. Once the sun sets they can get some sleep. These are mostly or perhaps all Herring Gulls I think.

A little later we drove over to the bay side for a better view of the sunset. A few more gulls were overhead, probably heading to their roosting site.

The back bay in the last of the sunlight. Beautiful and almost silent. When it got too dark for pictures, we headed back to the mainland for dinner.