I woke up feeling sluggish this morning. I know I was tossing and turning while trying to fall asleep last night which is unusual for me. Usually, I all but pass out once my head finally hits the pillow. I think I was feeling anxious from the conversations my husband and I had been having about making some changes involving our portfolio and future retirement. These potential changes could either directly or indirectly affect the kids, so my mind was on these discussions at bedtime. So, I awoke having not really rested, but I still pressed forward with what I wanted to cover academically with the kids. It’s been challenging trying to teach them with everything going on around us in the house. Just hard to get into a nice groove, but I can’t really complain. We are at the beach..
Low tide was in the early afternoon, so we made our way out to the beach after lunch to search for “treasures” as we call them. Unique seashells really, conchs, olives, sand dollars. The kids swam in the tide pools for a while that had formed from the water receeding, and played soccer on the sand bars. We were making our way back to the drier sand when I heard the kids screaming for us to come look at something. What they had found was a stingray in the tide pool they had just been swimming in! It was absolutely beautiful, a lovely pink color, and we were able to get fairly close to it. We watched it swim around for quite a while while it searched for a way to escape into the ocean. It’s body moved so gracefully as it glided along the surface of the sand, but we were all thankful that the children had not been stung by its tail. I still need to try to identify the type of ray that it was. It was a special afternoon for us, experiencing nature in its undisturbed and raw state. Normally, we would have paid money to see such a site, and the ray would have been seen in a tank, not in our tide pool. Fabulous..