This evening we spent time at Manhattan Beach. It was beautiful but I made a rookie mistake. The Pacific Ocean took me for an involuntary mini-swim ... not enough to be scary, just enough to get me and my stuff as wet and salty and sandy as you could imagine.

Water is strong. My friends were there to make sure everything was OK.

#GoodNightFriends

#seagulls #PacificOcean #ManhattanBeach #LosAngeles

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✧ blue-billed white tern ✧

The blue-billed white tern (Gygis candida) is a small tropical seabird in the family Laridae, occurring across the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean. Formerly treated as a subspecies within the white tern complex, conspecific with the the Atlantic white tern (G. alba) and the little white tern (G. mic...

#indianocean #pacificocean #seychelles #maldives #smalltropicalseabird #wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-billed_white_tern

good morning, friends β˜• β˜• πŸ’ž πŸ’ž πŸͺ½ πŸͺ½

getting ready for a conference day, thinking about the beach, these two egrets and this pelican. Hoping they're having a good morning - same to you.

#egrets #pelicans #LosAngeles #beach #pacificOcean