A beach inside the sea?

In June 2012, we took a trip to Bakkhali, which is a sea-side resort in West Bengal. The look of the sea here was different from my other visits to the sea (Goa, Pondicherry). The color of the water is grey. As I walked up to the sea side, the whole atmosphere looked grey - the grey sand, the grey sea water and the grey skies. While I was looking at the sea (my favorite pastime), I noticed something strange. While I was expecting to see the sea waves continously forming inside the entire sea, I saw some areas where there were no waves at all. I showed it to my husband, he told me it was a sandbar. I found it amazing - a beach in the middle of the sea?

Next morning when I walked up to the sea side, I saw that the land inside the sea was much bigger. I saw some people walking up to the land. This looked very interesting. After sometime, when my husband joined me at the sea-side, I asked him if we could walk up to that place. Sea had receded a lot in the morning. And the water was below our knees in our entire walk up to the land. It was quite a feeling standing on an island inside the sea.

So I checked in the wikipedia.  A sandbar or a shoal is a somwehat linear landform within or extending into a water body, typically composed of sand, silt or pebbles (Refer shoal on wikipedia)

There is a piece of land with no waves

People standing on the linear land (sandbar)

Thursday Challenge(Symmetry here)

We move, therefore we are!

Yesterday, I checked the theme for Photo Thursday was 'Movement'. I left my mind free to move and think.Various thoughts came to my mind. My love for the sea reminded me of the waves - the continuously forming and breaking waves. My interest in birds reminded me of the flight of the birds. When I looked at the trees, I thought about the wind. I cherished thinking about the waterfalls and even the water fountains. How about a child on a swing? The crabs on the sand leaving holes and imprints. A running deer!

 Life is all about movement. We move, therefore, we are!

Thursday Challenge here
 

Wave Motion

Movement into a hole

Imprints of the Movement

Where flowers bloom, so does hope

Came across this lovely quote by Edwin Curran

'Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth's lips spoken without so

Indeed flowers are silent beauty.

Thursday Challenge here