Sand, Shells, and Disciples

We tried out a new beach yesterday, Flyvesandet. I'd heard of this place from a few other people, and its distinguished by having about a half mile or so of shallow water. Those people are not walking on water, it just looks like it.


It's not the nicest "swimming" beach, the water right next to shore is a bit mucky, but warm. The shells here would crumble in my fingers. Probably from sitting in warm and very salty water (here the water come in, but I don't think it goes out much). But I did find something new. I think that these two flat discs are are parts that have flaked off of larger shells. They have a mother-of-pearl sheen to them and are very fragile.


I also saw some purple sand. A friend of mine was asking why this beach had purple sand just on the surface. Well, the only place I saw this was on the sandbars, so its either a super small sand fraction that happens to be purple, or just some microscopic scuzzy sea floaties.


We went to a great beach last Friday. I found a large, beautiful, purple starfish that wasn't going to make it - it had been out of water for too long. I laid it out to dry at the next kid-filled beach, and some cruddy little DK kid stole it. This has been the major bummer of my whole weekend.