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In childlike glee, I always remove my socks and shoes at a beach
Walking barefoot hurt
Tip-toeing brought forth a litany of curses
So like an ascetic and his bed of nails
We lay down, basking in the remnant warmth
Left by the sun on baked bleached shells
Staring at the blue sky
Deciphering patterns from the cotton wisps of clouds
Pure idle throwback the years bliss
D&A of Flowbispo with DJ Katchafiya at the 5th Annual Alex BBQ Trailer Trash Party on Sunday, May 29th 2011 in Shell Beach, CA ~ "SPONSORS INCLUDE: Skate Warehouse, Volcom & Sham-Wow" | flowbispo.com/ | www.skatewarehouse.com/
A shot from August 29-30 California Central Coast Thunderstorm. Over 21,000 lightning strikes hit within a 50 mile radius during the 14 hour show. neat!
Boy writing the alphabet in the sand on the beach with the end of an american flag, 4th of July, 2007. Shell Beach, Tomales Bay, CA.
The beach is mostly crushed shells smoothed by the years of constant wave action washing up the beach and back into the ocean.
D&A of Flowbispo with DJ Katchafiya at the 5th Annual Alex BBQ Trailer Trash Party on Sunday, May 29th 2011 in Shell Beach, CA ~ "SPONSORS INCLUDE: Skate Warehouse, Volcom & Sham-Wow" | flowbispo.com/ | www.skatewarehouse.com/
Though not apparent from this photo, the beach is made entirely from millions of cochina shells. The beach is on the way to Monkey Mia, and the whole area is covered in shells to a depth of up to 3 metres. It was amazing to see.
Visited in April 1992. (also in July 1993)
This is scanned from the original slide.
Billions of tiny white 'coquina bivalve' sea shells form Shell Beach. The coquina bivalve shellfish has no predator in this locality. The shell fish have existed in huge numbers for thousands of years, then died natural deaths then been washed ashore. Shell Beach is covered for a 60km-long stretch to a depth of some seven to ten metres. Shell Beach is one of only two shell beaches like it in the world.
Brown Pelicans, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pismo Beach, CA. I post these pictures, not because they are particularly good, but because of the large influx of Brown Pelicans they depict. This is possibly related to nesting failures in Baja California, with the birds coming north looking for food.
D&A of Flowbispo with DJ Katchafiya at the 5th Annual Alex BBQ Trailer Trash Party on Sunday, May 29th 2011 in Shell Beach, CA ~ "SPONSORS INCLUDE: Skate Warehouse, Volcom & Sham-Wow" | flowbispo.com/ | www.skatewarehouse.com/
At 110km long, Shell Beach is one of only two beaches in the world made completely out of shells.
The shells on this beach are all the small cockle species Fragum erugatum.
The beach forms a sustainable resource as the shells concrete together and are cut out in blocks and used as a naturally insolating building material.
Shell Beach, Shark Bay, WA.
D&A of Flowbispo with DJ Katchafiya at the 5th Annual Alex BBQ Trailer Trash Party on Sunday, May 29th 2011 in Shell Beach, CA ~ "SPONSORS INCLUDE: Skate Warehouse, Volcom & Sham-Wow" | flowbispo.com/ | www.skatewarehouse.com/
friend and fellow local artist, marni mutrux. i had no idea she was involved in art in the park, but it was nice to see a familiar face just a few booths away.
Shell Beach's most prominent older cliff top home, the old Chapman house, as it looked in the year 1979.