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Gabe's first visit to a beach:

Clean, salt-free water; crystal sky.


Gabe handed 3,572 pebbles to Grampa, 374 of which he first tried to eat. . .


. . .and Gabe wondered why Grampa kept dribbling water on his foot. After this came much fun with a bucket, and then it was sitting-in-the-water time!

We shared the beach with a family that had a pair of toddlers (one of which was toted down to the sand under one arm, looking like a piece of luggage), and this family of ducks, who popped out from the shade of a rock just next to me, thereby making me jump two feet in the air. These are the scariest ducklings I've ever met!