I got to spend last weekend at a conference in Malibu. Before actually going to Malibu my only experience of Malibu came from the movie Intolerable Cruelty during a conversation between two very wealthily divorced women:
“Why don’t you come out to Malibu and see my new beach house?” “I didn’t know Dimitri had a beach house.” “Neither did I, until my lawyer found it. It was quite the paper trail, he had it in the dog’s name.”This most certainly prepared me for the multi-million dollar houses that cropped up on the shore, but it did not adequately prepare me for my first encounter with these guys:
I could have spent an entire day watching this scene. My Peterson’s field guide describes these guys “chasing waves like a wind-up toy.” Poetic and remarkably accurate.
In other news, I got to go tide pooling!
Oh, the crazy things you can do when you have podia.
I went a little crazy enjoying the underwater capabilities of my camera:
I finally saw my first real life, not living in an aquarium at Sea World, dolphin. The twelve-year-old in me was positively leaping for joy. It makes me want to start drawing dolphins on the cover of every single notebook I own all over again!
~Robin
it’s always ourselves that we find in the sea ~E.E. Cummings
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Manda of the Nightfall
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Awesome pix!