All at sea!
Wipeout!
Licking and licking,
With a greedy salted tongue.
Restrained by the tide
Adrift
Uprooted from home
Battling for survival
Learning new skills
And mastering them
Poised, ready for action
Ships that pass…
I’m not sure quite where this wistful post came from. It started life as a tribute to Lazy Poet’s Thursday Haiku and somehow morphed. Just me, rambling on Algarve beaches. But this week, Gilly has the most beautiful Tanka. Do go and see.
restlessjo 
Some playful sea photos and the perfect haiku to go along with them. 🙂
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Hiya Cathy 🙂 I see you’ve made lots of comments. I’m just back this evening and time is tight but I’ll be over to you when I can. Had a wonderful time, hon. Hope all’s well with you.
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Beautiful post Jo! Have you changed your camera? Your images are better than ever. And the Haiku is a perfect complement.
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Same camera but I’ve run out of photo memory and have been experimenting a little. I rather like this format but I’ve lost my sidebar and bits 🙂
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How can that be? I have only used up about 32% and we have been blogging for about the same time. Although I admit I haven’t been as prolific 🙂
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I don’t resize- do you? I gather that’s key 😦 And my walks use a LOT of images 🙂
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I do. I assumed everyone did! I resize to the max width the theme permits. The downside is that images in my earlier posts are too small. I have been enlarging them as and when I resurrect some of the better posts.
Resizing the entire lot is going to be time consuming. So what are you going to do?
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Still trying to decide between starting another free blog and paying for Premium so I can add memory 😦 I have posts I bursting to write but I can’t… tragic! My own silly fault 🙂
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Going premium might be a good idea. I am considering it too in order to get rid of the awful ads that pop up at the bottom of our posts.
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I might have to bite the bullet before I wreck my entire site. 🙂
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I suggest you buy your domain name while you are at it. Think it comes included in the premium plan cost.
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Thanks for the advice, Madhu. 🙂
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Most welcome my friend 🙂
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Did you give wakeboarding a try Jo? Looks like it would be fun. Not for me but you are the adventurous type. 😉
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I’m adventurous when it comes to watching, Tonya! I’m the original kid with 2 left feet and no sense of balance 😦
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a lovely way to spend a day!!
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Or several! 🙂 🙂
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I agree!!
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Oh how beautiful! Great set.
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Thanks a lot, Karin 🙂
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Now that certainly was an enjoyable ramble. 🙂
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Glad you could come along, Karen 🙂
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The beaches, the sea and the sky all look wonderful – what a lovely place to visit.
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It does have its moments, Elaine. I can remember the odd gloomy day over the years , but not many 🙂
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I’d love to be at a beach with a decent temperature. I haven’t gone for a swim this year, not even once.
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😦
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I love to watch the surfers! I’m comfortable with body surfing and a small “boogie board,” but I’m no surfer! I just admire. And I love the ocean and all beach activity so I understand the wistfulness. 🙂 Quite beautiful, Jo!
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Thanks, Debbie 🙂 I’m much better at watching than just about any physical activity I can think of 🙂
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Wonderful wistfulness Jo. I love your Algarve!
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Not too bad, is it, Sue? 🙂 🙂
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These photos really take me back, Jo. I grew up beside the sea and you never quite get it out of your system 😉
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I never will either, Dianne 🙂 🙂
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Fabulous seaside pics, Jo, and your haiku is inspired. 🙂 xx
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Thanks so much, Ad. 🙂
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What gorgeous pics, Jo – I love anything to do with the sea!
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It’s a gorgeous place, Susan, and a very easy one to take photos. Thank you! 🙂
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I love this post Jo….I think haiku and tanka have got into your soul….a whimsical poetic new style, and the light on those beaches is just stunning.
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Thanks, Seonaid 🙂 I wasn’t sure at all what I was going to post today because I still have so many Algarve photos. I went to the wedding in Poland just a few days after we got back from there so I’m not reoriented yet. 🙂
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Well I love your disorientated self…beautiful creative weavings💕
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Ah bless you sweetheart, this is lovely a really cool shout out, thanks. You’ve got your poets badge now 😊 I can’t imagine that you could know my pic was taken in Olhao last week? Oh poo, last week not now 😯 . So you’re off next month, fabby, I’ll be green especially as it will be really vold by then.
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I wasn’t sure exactly where, Gilly, but I knew it was Algarve. 🙂 Olhao is interesting, isn’t it? I don’t suppose you got over to Armona? I love it there.
We don’t go till late November and the weather could be anything by then, so don’t be too jealous. Our house will certainly be cold but we might get some nice days, and the walkers will be out and about then, so there’s company, if we want it.
Thank you for my badge 🙂
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Lovely Jo! Hope you are well! 😉
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Good thanks, Nicole! Just trying to get back into an English groove in this unseasonably warm Autumn we’re having. Not a single complaint about that. 🙂 And you? I’ll pop over later and see.
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Yes we have been having a fantastic fall here! It has been lovely, warm and beautiful! 🙂
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I quite like your morphing. Lovely softness and wistfulness here. Your last image is a powerful evocative image. What crystal clear water!
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If you saw the kerfuffle I got myself in last night! I couldn’t make any sort of decision on what to post, and started 3 different posts. Something I never do! Anyway, this one won. Glad you like it 🙂 The water was everything from smooth as silk to wild and whooshy while we were there. While Mick snoozes I wander, or sometimes write haiku 🙂
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My foray into haiku has been brief, I think the macro stuff has got in the way, but I do like it (the poetry) 😀
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Lovely, Jo 💖
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Cheers, Sammy 🙂 🙂
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