By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Beaches.
Walking out onto the beach at dawn
or relaxing on it at sunset
the beach is a magical place…
But as kayakers, we look on beaches with a practical eye. And there’s always something to complain about.
The beach might vanish underwater at high tide—
or be painfully broad at low tide—
Too steep—
(full story is here)
Too rocky—
or, on the contrary, too sandy (sugar-fine sand, no matter how magical it might be otherwise, gets in everything)—
Too much surf—
Too many people—
But sometimes, just sometimes, we land on that perfect beach, not too narrow, not too broad, not too steep, with waves lapping gently on the soft sand, where we are alone, where the dusk and dawn are truly magical…
Vladimir Brezina (RIP) 
Johna Till Johnson
Wind Against Current 
Beautiful.
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Thanks, Indira!
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Reblogueó esto en " Una Voz en el Silencio ".
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Thanks for reblogging!
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Thanks ! :)
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You guys can tell such magical stories :) I believe I lost you somewhere…I don’t see you in my reader.
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Yes, it happens—WordPress drops various connections on a fairly regular basis…
Thanks, Allyson!
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Love it! Now a bottle of wine, a little campfire, some stars, all set…
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Well, here’s the campfire on the beach—
Stars are often visible above. Wine? We don’t usually bring any, but we have brought beer on occasion…
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That’s it! A good cup of tea would suffice – don’t want to paddle with a hangover…
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What a very nice post :) !!! Especially the photos of course, but also your comments to the photos ;) ! Greetings from Anja
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Thanks so much, Anja!! :-)
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you’ve seen them all! thanks.
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We’ve seen many, but there are always many more still to be seen…
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Fun story with nice photos. Of course the last one is the winner – I recognize it as the beaches we have found at different places, at different times.
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Yes, we all know it when we see it! :-)
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Great story telling with words and pics, Vlad! And I love that first image, so dreamy.
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Yes :-) Thanks, Lynn!
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You said it… magical! I envy you… just a little. No… just a LOT!! ;-)
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The beaches are there for anyone to discover :-)
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Tje whole post is great, but the first pic…The first one is magical….You are lucky!
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We are, in lots of ways :-)
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Excellent set – I particularly like the first – the gull turned up right on cue.
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I don’t think the gull gets all the credit… I waited for it to appear ;-)
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Love this post. Reminds me of kayak trips where beach “complaints” included bear sign (or actually bears), wake from cruise ships, or glacial ice. But oh the joy of finding a perfect beach in time for sunset.
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There are, of course, also those times when we don’t find the beach and have to spend the night shivering on the rocks… ;-)
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Very nice. I like the way you show all the different ways that a beach lacks perfection, to contrast that with the one that fulfills all the requirements.
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All beaches lack perfection in the middle of the day, but the closer it gets to sunset, the more perfect they become ;-)
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You’ve seen all kinds of beaches. I couldn’t help but think you get the beach view from the opposite of most of us.
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Yes, we see them not from the land side the way most people do, but from the water side—it does make quite a difference! :-)
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Great, Vladimir!!!!!
Pedro.
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Thanks, Pedro!!
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Thanks
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Not too narrow, not too broad, not too steep, juuuuuuust right. ;-)
Nice photos.
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The Goldilocks way of thinking ;-)
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Just call me Goldie. ;-)
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Wonderful, awesome! Really can’t find anything to say bad about beaches :)
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That’s because there is absolutely nothing bad to be found to say about beaches :-)
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I like all your photos but the first one looks very peaceful, as well as the last one.
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That was the idea! :-)
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Beautiful series of images.
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Thanks!
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I LOVE that first picture…great capture.
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Thank you so much! :-)
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Excellent, brilliant, stunning post…so many adjectives I can use:-)
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And thank you so very much for using them! :-)
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Stunning photos of another wonderful journey!
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Thank you so much!!
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:)
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like all the other readers, I also just want to say what a great blog with the interesting little anecdotes around each shot
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It’s always good to have a story. The pictures alone are kind of boring ;-)
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The first image takes my breath away! I want to be that person on the beach…
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That was Johna :-)
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I love the second photo. Seeing the bright sun against the water actually made me simile :)
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:-) It’s one of my thousands of sunset photos—somehow I just can’t stop taking them ;-)
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Two Goldilocks, finally getting to Just Right!
(I love that beach at sunset, the blue and gold. I wouldn’t have budged from there.)
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We didn’t. We stayed the night, and watched the sun make an equally amazing entrance the next morning. (The last photo here was actually dawn the next day, not dusk the night before, although they looked pretty similar.)
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