ARMADILLOS! I so wish we had armadillos in Canada. They are such wonderfully improbable critters.
Sounds like you all had a lovely break!
It's strange, isn't it, how much colder the Pacific is than the Atlantic, at the same latitudes. Even as far north as here, Atlantic beaches are swimmable in the late summer/early fall, particularly in the more sheltered bays. And the really warm water is north again, the shores of the Gulf of St. Lawrence (Prince Edward Island, for example), where the water temps can hit 80 + in the summer.
It has always seemed just *wrong* to me that California and Oregon have all these lovely beaches where you can't swim without a wet suit!
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Sounds like you all had a lovely break!
It's strange, isn't it, how much colder the Pacific is than the Atlantic, at the same latitudes. Even as far north as here, Atlantic beaches are swimmable in the late summer/early fall, particularly in the more sheltered bays. And the really warm water is north again, the shores of the Gulf of St. Lawrence (Prince Edward Island, for example), where the water temps can hit 80 + in the summer.
It has always seemed just *wrong* to me that California and Oregon have all these lovely beaches where you can't swim without a wet suit!