An island escape
Goose stepping without the guilt
Free from all shackles
Fragile yet fearless
Fed on the ocean’s plenty
Simple paradise
Wistful
restlessjo
Roaming, at home and abroad
restlessjo 
The photos are just beautiful. The things you see in the sand, if you take the time to look down.
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One of my favourite pastimes. Just me, the waves and the camera…. or even (hush, don’t tell!) no camera 🙂 🙂
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Drifty dreamy post, Jo – paradise indeed. I love the photos of the little bird steps and the fisherman looks so at peace, total concentration at the task. Oh, summer seems a distant memory now.
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I’d have to agree with you, Annika. It does 😦 (seem like a memory 🙂 ). But I’ll be back to make sure all is well soon.
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Enjoyed browsing and remembering with you! The starfish was quite exceptional – I just re-gifted some dried out starfish to two young gals and went online to show them some photos in their habitat – and this one is so unique I will have to bring them here! We never see them on beaches near us… like the shell too and people 😉
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It’s only on the more remote bits of the Algarve beaches that I’ve generally seen them, Yvette, but they fill me with wonder every time. I have a couple of the fragile dried out ones on my Algarve windowsill. 🙂 🙂
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what a nice item to have in the window sill – my dad used to have wishbones drying and ready to break with the kids…
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Lovely post, Jo, both the words and the visual
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Thanks, Sue 🙂 I meant to come looking for you. Busy weekend?
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Busy for me as I can’t do as much as ‘normal’ people, if you get my drift… So lots to try and achieve for the next few days!
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I wondered, cos you haven’t been posting much. Take care 🙂
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Well, I had a UTI which knocked me out for over a week, so I’m playing ‘catch up’ now….. Life, eh?
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It’s a bugger, isn’t it? 🙂 Gotta face the ironing next. Sunday joys 🙂
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Oh, I’m ignoring the ironing at present!
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Hey check this too humandesire4.wordpress.com
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I just did 🙂
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Beautiful and Captivating. Makes me want to be there….
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Me too! The North Sea in England is pretty chilly 🙂
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un grande ambiente idilliaco, colori spettacolari!
felice notte Jo
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So joyful to bathe in all that warmth while I sit here with my hot water bottle, Annalisa 🙂 🙂 Sending you molto abracci! I know my terrible Italian makes you smile.
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Beautifully expressed, Jo, in pictures and in words. You make me miss the ocean, and the beach.
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Well, I have the North Sea not far from my doorstep but it’s not quite the same, Liesbet. 🙂 Hope you had a joyful Thanksgiving.
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We did. Thank you, Jo!
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Jo this is so gorgeous. We have been having a warm, by Canadian standards, autumn but this looks blissful to me!
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To me, as well, Sue, but take heart- Becky says it’s much cooler now, but still sunny. 🙂 I’d cope!
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Beautiful shots, Jo. I wish I was walking on that beach now!
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I’d be right behind you, Jill! Good Thanksgiving? 🙂
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Very nice…thank you!
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A beautiful post. As I’ve said before, I love it when you break out of prose into form. Special hugs, my dear. I’ve removed the fog from them.
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Oh, I didn’t mind a little wisp of fog wrapped around one of your hugs, Meg. Sounds rather magical, in fact 🙂 🙂 Fulla busy today?
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Friday is my daughter’s day, so I planned to sleep in. And then J rang, because he knows I’m always awake early, to make sure he hadn’t duplicated any books for the kids. Did I say he’ll be back this time next week? If you don’t mind fog, how about darkness at 4?
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So soon??? That’s terrific for you! Where did those weeks go? Less than 6, surely? Fog has a certain romance to it, and you can definitely say that about the dark too. Sometimes I don’t mind that ‘being cosied up, close the curtains’ stuff, but it does shorten my striding along beaches time 🙂 🙂 Reminds me- haven’t done that for ages. (on an evening) Must be braver! Have a lovely weekend, darlin.
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He was only gone four – long enough to install his solar panels and soak up sun, or did I say that before? A good weekend to you my dear – sunshine without, and within. Off to the theatre with my daughter tonight.
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No, you didn’t 🙂 I envy him the sunshine but envy does no good. I have a rather spectacular sunrise just over my right shoulder, and will take consolation in that. Stuck to my hot water bottle this morning and wondering what position to take up to get comfortable. Have a super theatre trip 🙂
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Weird theatre trip! I think I need to understand the words for total pleasure!
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No doubt a post will follow? 🙂
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Lovely post Jo . . . . .definitely not as warm out there this morning but still lovely and sunny
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Well, it is almost December! Have a great weekend, Becky 🙂 🙂
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I know but a little part of me keeps looking at that sun and wishing . . . . . . .
Hope you have a lovely weekend too, anything fun planned?
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Not a lot! Girl’s night tonight, but I had my first ‘Christmas’ lunch, with our walkers, yesterday 🙂
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Wow ‘Christmas’ lunches . . . . well as you say it is nearly December.
Try and behave tonight!! 😉
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Spoilsport! 🙂 🙂
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Lovely sunny moments!
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There were lots of them on our last Algarve trip. 🙂
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Keep looking through those pictures Jo especially on days like we’ve had recently … sure brings forth a warm glow remembering silky warm sand underfoot . … Lovely Haiku … wistful very much so .. Happy Freitag and enjoy your Girls night Jo ! xx
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Funny you should say that, Poppy! Just what I’ve been doing for the past hour 🙂 🙂 Thanks, darlin! Adventures afoot? Tread carefully but with joy in your steps 🙂
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