Tank birthday, 47+ years

[Paul B]

OMG, I am so happy. For a week I couldn't find my favorite fish. And now here she is. :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes:

 

[j.falk]

Hey Paul - I'm curious...what is the weirdest thing you ever found washed up on the beach by your house?

 

[atoll]

Hey Paul - I'm curious...what is the weirdest thing you ever found washed up on the beach by your house?

The sea here is a bit far to walk. I do have a medieval castle just round the corner from me but I don't think there are any middle ages pods in there.

 

[Paul B]

• I almost rescued a Supermodel on the beach but I don't think she washed up there

It's pretty warm here today so I decide to get some exercise and take a walk to the beach behind my house. It's about 170 steps almost straight down and being it's kind of still winter, I have not been doing this much yet. In the summer I try to do it almost every day. So I figure I will go like half way down, take a little rest, and come back up. Every day I will do some more. So I go down about half way and I can see the beach.



I take a little break, sit down and look around.



I see this "Thing" on the sand that wasn't there the day before. I am part of this seal, whale, turtle rescue thing here on Long Island and I figure it is one of those creatures.

This beach is almost in-accessible except by helicopter or walking down all these steps.
I figure I need to get a little closer to see what it is.

I walk down a little farther knowing that at some point I will have to walk back up and I know there is no cell phone service on the beach.

I go down some more and realize it is a person. OMG. Someone must have had a heart attack, broke a leg, was overcome with velvet or is dying from boredom.



I really don't want to descend all the way down because I am not in shape to go back up.
I watch intensely for maybe five minutes to see if they move.

No movement, they must be hurt, in a coma or dead. OMG again.

If I don't get to them I will not be able to sleep thinking about what could be wrong with them.

So I head down still seeing no movement. I check my phone to see how my stocks are doing, I mean to see if I have, service.

I get to the sand and start walking. He or she is maybe 75 yards away, laying on the sand with their feet facing the water and their head facing the mountain.

If they are hurt, I will have to make it all the way up the stairs to call for help and they will have to dispatch a helicopter as there is no other way to get to this particular beach. Should I put rocks on the beach spelling out "SOS" like they do in the movies?

Light a fire?

My mind is racing. Will I have to do CPR, set a broken leg, perform Mouth to Mouth or just brush the marauding hermit crabs off of the body. I don't know but I am getting closer.

I still see no movement but it is windy and the seagulls are giving me a headache.

I get up to the person and notice it seems to be a female. She had kind of nice looking designer boots on and a down jacket with a hood fringed with fur.

Still no movement so I figure right away, she must be a run away Supermodel that is scared of the Corona Virus and wants to get away from the Paparazzi.

As I walk closer I am shuffling my feet making noise with the rocks to try to stir the person.

Nothing!!

I inch right up to her and yell, "HEY ARE YOU OK? ".

She quickly jerks her head up and says, "Yes, I am Fine, I must have fallen Asleep".

I wanted to say, "Are you like Sleeping Beauty and ate a poison apple that made you fall asleep on the rocks and sand of a deserted beach with your feet near the water or are you some sort of Mermaid that thinks you have ich?

I didn't ask and just said, "I am glad you are not dead because I can't carry you up all those stairs.

And I left. But tonight I will sleep knowing I almost saved a Supermodel and walked up more stairs than I wanted to. :p

 

[Lowell Lemon]

• I almost rescued a Supermodel on the beach but I don't think she washed up there

It's pretty warm here today so I decide to get some exercise and take a walk to the beach behind my house. It's about 170 steps almost straight down and being it's kind of still winter, I have not been doing this much yet. In the summer I try to do it almost every day. So I figure I will go like half way down, take a little rest, and come back up. Every day I will do some more. So I go down about half way and I can see the beach.



I take a little break, sit down and look around.



I see this "Thing" on the sand that wasn't there the day before. I am part of this seal, whale, turtle rescue thing here on Long Island and I figure it is one of those creatures.

This beach is almost in-accessible except by helicopter or walking down all these steps.
I figure I need to get a little closer to see what it is.

I walk down a little farther knowing that at some point I will have to walk back up and I know there is no cell phone service on the beach.

I go down some more and realize it is a person. OMG. Someone must have had a heart attack, broke a leg, was overcome with velvet or is dying from boredom.



I really don't want to descend all the way down because I am not in shape to go back up.
I watch intensely for maybe five minutes to see if they move.

No movement, they must be hurt, in a coma or dead. OMG again.

If I don't get to them I will not be able to sleep thinking about what could be wrong with them.

So I head down still seeing no movement. I check my phone to see how my stocks are doing, I mean to see if I have, service.

I get to the sand and start walking. He or she is maybe 75 yards away, laying on the sand with their feet facing the water and their head facing the mountain.

If they are hurt, I will have to make it all the way up the stairs to call for help and they will have to dispatch a helicopter as there is no other way to get to this particular beach. Should I put rocks on the beach spelling out "SOS" like they do in the movies?

Light a fire?

My mind is racing. Will I have to do CPR, set a broken leg, perform Mouth to Mouth or just brush the marauding hermit crabs off of the body. I don't know but I am getting closer.

I still see no movement but it is windy and the seagulls are giving me a headache.

I get up to the person and notice it seems to be a female. She had kind of nice looking designer boots on and a down jacket with a hood fringed with fur.

Still no movement so I figure right away, she must be a run away Supermodel that is scared of the Corona Virus and wants to get away from the Paparazzi.

As I walk closer I am shuffling my feet making noise with the rocks to try to stir the person.

Nothing!!

I inch right up to her and yell, "HEY ARE YOU OK? ".

She quickly jerks her head up and says, "Yes, I am Fine, I must have fallen Asleep".

I wanted to say, "Are you like Sleeping Beauty and ate a poison apple that made you fall asleep on the rocks and sand of a deserted beach with your feet near the water or are you some sort of Mermaid that thinks you have ich?

I didn't ask and just said, "I am glad you are not dead because I can't carry you up all those stairs.

And I left. But tonight I will sleep knowing I almost saved a Supermodel and walked up more stairs than I wanted to. :p

Looks like jetsom and flotsam to me no matter how much I zoom in...did you forget your glasses before the walk? Supermodel my eye! Great story though hahaha.

 

[Paul B]

All perfectly true. :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes:

 

[Paul B]

Amphipods I collected. My reef is full of them

 

[Paul B]

So I just got back from my shoulder surgeon and I found out I need to also go to a neck neurosurgeon. Who even knew there was such a thing?

It seems a nerve in my neck is squashed so I won't have full strength in my brand new shoulder which by the way will be a reverse shoulder replacement. They do that so I can catch a ball while facing backwards. :rolleyes:

 

[CoralB]

• I almost rescued a Supermodel on the beach but I don't think she washed up there

It's pretty warm here today so I decide to get some exercise and take a walk to the beach behind my house. It's about 170 steps almost straight down and being it's kind of still winter, I have not been doing this much yet. In the summer I try to do it almost every day. So I figure I will go like half way down, take a little rest, and come back up. Every day I will do some more. So I go down about half way and I can see the beach.



I take a little break, sit down and look around.



I see this "Thing" on the sand that wasn't there the day before. I am part of this seal, whale, turtle rescue thing here on Long Island and I figure it is one of those creatures.

This beach is almost in-accessible except by helicopter or walking down all these steps.
I figure I need to get a little closer to see what it is.

I walk down a little farther knowing that at some point I will have to walk back up and I know there is no cell phone service on the beach.

I go down some more and realize it is a person. OMG. Someone must have had a heart attack, broke a leg, was overcome with velvet or is dying from boredom.



I really don't want to descend all the way down because I am not in shape to go back up.
I watch intensely for maybe five minutes to see if they move.

No movement, they must be hurt, in a coma or dead. OMG again.

If I don't get to them I will not be able to sleep thinking about what could be wrong with them.

So I head down still seeing no movement. I check my phone to see how my stocks are doing, I mean to see if I have, service.

I get to the sand and start walking. He or she is maybe 75 yards away, laying on the sand with their feet facing the water and their head facing the mountain.

If they are hurt, I will have to make it all the way up the stairs to call for help and they will have to dispatch a helicopter as there is no other way to get to this particular beach. Should I put rocks on the beach spelling out "SOS" like they do in the movies?

Light a fire?

My mind is racing. Will I have to do CPR, set a broken leg, perform Mouth to Mouth or just brush the marauding hermit crabs off of the body. I don't know but I am getting closer.

I still see no movement but it is windy and the seagulls are giving me a headache.

I get up to the person and notice it seems to be a female. She had kind of nice looking designer boots on and a down jacket with a hood fringed with fur.

Still no movement so I figure right away, she must be a run away Supermodel that is scared of the Corona Virus and wants to get away from the Paparazzi.

As I walk closer I am shuffling my feet making noise with the rocks to try to stir the person.

Nothing!!

I inch right up to her and yell, "HEY ARE YOU OK? ".

She quickly jerks her head up and says, "Yes, I am Fine, I must have fallen Asleep".

I wanted to say, "Are you like Sleeping Beauty and ate a poison apple that made you fall asleep on the rocks and sand of a deserted beach with your feet near the water or are you some sort of Mermaid that thinks you have ich?

I didn't ask and just said, "I am glad you are not dead because I can't carry you up all those stairs.

And I left. But tonight I will sleep knowing I almost saved a Supermodel and walked up more stairs than I wanted to. :p

Sounds like it’s time to get a stairlift installed on those steps and start taking a bottle of oxygen with you on those long walks . Oxygen depravity can make one hallucinate lol!! :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes:, I’ll bet if you go back you’ll probably see she wasn’t a person but a turtle taking a rest on its way back from laying eggs lol!!!:beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes: KIDDING!! . You should write novels . Fun stuff

 

[Paul B]

LOL, That would be an expensive and complicated stair lift.

This is the top part.


And here is the rest of it. 176 steps. :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes:

 

[CoralB]

LOL, That would be an expensive and complicated stair lift.

This is the top part.


And here is the rest of it. 176 steps. :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes:

Paul that looks like elderly abuse . Did they really need to zig zag those stairs . No wonder you have a tough time getting down there . A younger person would have to stop and get a breath as well . Have you considered getting one of those saucer snow sleds to get down and attaching the same sled to a winch to get back up lol!!! :cool: .

 

[Paul B]

I am pushing for a zip line to go down and an escalator to go up. I was outvoted. :anguished-face: That is one reason I never see anyone on that beach. It is the only place in New York where I can look 5 miles in each direction and not see anyone. That is the main reason I bought here. :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes:

You should write novels . Fun stuff

I already wrote a book. Just call it a novel. :rolleyes:

 

[CoralB]

I am pushing for a zip line to go down and an escalator to go up. I was outvoted. :anguished-face: That is one reason I never see anyone on that beach. It is the only place in New York where I can look 5 miles in each direction and not see anyone. That is the main reason I bought here. :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes:






I already wrote a book. Just call it a novel. :rolleyes:

Nice view !!! :cool:

 

[CoralB]

LOL, That would be an expensive and complicated stair lift.

This is the top part.


And here is the rest of it. 176 steps. :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes:

Is that your surfboard and kayak at the bottom of those steps ???:D

 

[Kmst80]

LOL, That would be an expensive and complicated stair lift.

This is the top part.


And here is the rest of it. 176 steps.

Are those landings there so when you fall you break your neck on the handrails and the tide takes you out to be fish food?

 

[Paul B]

Nothing exciting happened on my morning beach walk except I met this Lady who seems very interested in me. I think a little to interested so I have to walk faster. :rolleyes:

 

[atoll]

You never know what you may find during an early morning walk along the beach. Mermaids, super models even old construction workers. Never find any myself but then it would take me a long time to walk to the Nearest beach.
This is Ben on our nearest beach who loves open spaces.

 

[Hot2na]

I am pushing for a zip line to go down and an escalator to go up. I was outvoted. :anguished-face: That is one reason I never see anyone on that beach. It is the only place in New York where I can look 5 miles in each direction and not see anyone. That is the main reason I bought here. :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes:






I already wrote a book. Just call it a novel. :rolleyes:

East end North shore of long Island , I assume ? If I lived there I'd be fishing that beach every morning and evening..i'm sure there's lots of stripers and blues around..look up John Skinner on you tube ..he fishes that area .. lots of good info.

 

[Nano_Man]

Looks a lovely place to live thanks for sharing

 

[Paul B]

Yes it's the North Fork in eastern Long Island. I sometimes drive my Jeep back there to fish. There are mostly sea bass and porgies there and I assume, if you get very lucky, a striper.