earlier at the beach

I decided to try to get over to the beach just after sunrise before the storm got closer as it is down the coast still battering the Florida east coast..a few walkers & dog-walkers out & about but otherwise pretty quiet.. it rained overnite .. it's a 'high sky' but with lots of gloomy clouds right now .. we know what's coming our way snapped some of the surfers taking advantage of the surf building up.. pretty flat waves when I got there but an hour later they were catching some pretty nice waves--but it's definitely not Hawaii North Shore caliber waves

batten down the hatches

Pier closed and locked down

online with the Pier WebCam waving Hi

caught a nice wave

didn't last long

a lone Gull checking me out

walking the beach after a ride

riding high on a wave

ducking under a small 'curl'

Sunset Beach 'air force' in formation--Pelicans

only ones in the Pier parking lot

waves crashing under the Pier

lucky to see the sun at all