BEACH WALK AND LITTLE ELLA'S HERE

NO, THIS ISN'T LITTLE ELLA

Expected rains in the night didn't materialize.  Kelly had a 9 a.m. dentist appointment so she headed off to Exeter.  Pheebs and I wandered into Bayfield for a look around.

BAYFIELD BEACH

A CONTENTED BAYFIELD FISHERMAN

Decided to check out a beach access point at the western end of Bayfield's Howard street.  I've known about this spot ever since we've been here but my mind never seems to remember to go there.  Kelly, her son Ben, and his two boys had gone to this small section of beach Saturday and that jogged my memory.  The shoreline is accessible at the end of a steep flight of stairs leading down from the bluff above.  The beach section itself is small and narrow and one might be hard-pressed to get a blanket all stretched out on the rocky sand.  More driftwood washed up here than I've seen for a long time and the beach section itself is only a few hundred yards long.  Lots of various sized ankle-twisting rocks line the shoreline making walking a little tricky in spots.  A cool stiff breeze coming in off the lake continually pushed a tumble of waves ashore.  We will definitely return to this spot again.

THAT'S A LONG WAY DOWN TO THE BEACH

AND PHEEBS IS IN A HURRY TO GET THERE

OUR FIRST VIEW OF THE LAKE FROM THE BOTTOM STEPS

MADE OUR WAY THROUGH THIS SAND CANYON TO THE SHORE

LOOKING NORTH UP THE LAKE TOWARDS BAYFIELD

LOOKING SOUTH DOWN THE LAKE TOWARDS GRAND BEND

BAYFIELD'S SOUTH PIER IS UP THERE

SAILBOAT MASTS ALONG BAYFIELD'S SHORELINE

NO FISHERMEN ON THE END OF BAYFIELD'S PIER THIS MORNING

PHEEBS AT THE BEACH

Came across a heavy weathered wooden plank in the sand with steel rods of some kind protruding from it and I couldn't help but think it may have washed ashore from a sunken ship of yesteryear.  It just had that look about it.

WHAT FORCES OF NATURE WOULD BEND A STEEL ROD LIKE THAT?

SAND FLOWERS

Wind driven waves coming in off Lake Huron had waves crawling across the shore's waterworn rocks trying to drag the tangled driftwood and pockets of sand back into the lake.  

THIS DRIFTWOOD TREE IS HOLDING BACK SAND FROM BEING DRAGGED BACK INTO THE LAKE

A BEACHCOMBER'S CREATIVE DRIFTWOOD ART

DRIFTWOOD COMES IN MANY CONFIGURATIONS AND THIS PIECE IS THE ROOTS OF A TREE

HEADING BACK, PHEEBS HAS FOUND THE ENTRANCE TO THE SAND CANYON

THAT'S A BIT OF A CLIMB

There are a couple other beach access points at the ends of Dow and Delevan streets on either side of Howard Street where we were this morning.  One is closed and the other has a meandering dirt path leading down the front of the bluff.  Not so swell for elderly folks.

AT THE WEST END OF DOW STREET

We continued our drive south of Bayfield checking on the progress of the Tim Horton coffee shop site.  It's steadily coming along and there haven't been any long lapses of inactivity like in the past year or two.  Instead of heading further out into the countryside, we decided to head back home.

SLOWLY TAKING SHAPE

OUT AROUND OUR FROG POND THIS AFTERNOON

With cooler morning air first thing this morning I figured I might get a little more wax on the rig but it didn't take long for the heat and humidity to ramp up and that was the end of those plans.  I again retreated into the house and stayed there.

Kelly's daughter Rebecca, with her daughter little Ella, came up to spend the day at Goderich's beach and then came over to our place late afternoon.  Had been eight months since Kelly saw Ella and a year since I last saw her.  She's like a fast-growing bean sprout.  Kelly and I slipped into Bayfield's Out Of The Blue Seafood Market and picked us up a load of Fish 'n' Chips for supper.  Yummies all way round:))

PHEEBS IS KEEPING AND EYE ON ELLA'S ICE CREAM DISH

GROANER'S CORNER:((  My boss came to me at lunch, "Where the hell have you been? I've been trying to find you all morning!"  I shrugged and said, "Good employees are hard to find!"

- Why did the cross-eyed teacher get the sack?  Because he couldn't control his pupils.

- "Never drive faster than your angels can fly."

- Confucius say: Woman wear three kinds of ring . . . the engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffer Ring.

- 'Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.'

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