Gone fishing

Today is Christmas Day.  We listened to a nice Christmas sermon and enjoyed the singing of the ladies choir.  It was really beautiful.  Ralph and I decided that we would spend most of our next two weeks staying "close to home".  Today was a quiet with the afternoon spent watching the antics of many pelicans in the ocean.  They were fishing in large groups.  In many cases they were surrounded by lots of gulls and terns. It was challenging to get some good shots as they were quite far out in the ocean.  With the sun on the water, it reflected many beautiful colours.  I am pretty happy with how some of them turned out.

And we're off

Ralph and I are planning on spending the winter in Myrtle Beach.  We left on Thursday, December 23 and arrived on the 24th.  We stopped over in Asheboro,  North Carolina for the evening on the way down and left today around 8:00.  We arrived in Myrtle Beach by 11:30.  The ride down went very well. The roads were quiet and the weather was beautiful and sunny all the way.

Our day was spent checking in and settling into the room.  We did a few groceries (to last the weekend) and then went for a nice walk along the beach.  It's a little busier at the beach because it's the Christmas weekend but we expect things to quiet down again on Monday.  We're in a temporary room right now and will move into our condo on Monday.  

There are plenty of gulls/terns on the beach again this year.  I had some fun photographing them.  We were also blessed with an amazing sunset.  I never get tired of the beautiful colours.