Thursday, February 24, 2011

Vanderbilt Beach Naples FL

A day at the beach with Uncle Ted and Auntie Rose. Not much to do here except people watch and get burned. Luckily, I didn't get burned, but I do have a mysterious red stripe down one side of my back. I guess someone didn't get sunscreen in all the right places.

Like to people watch? Go to the beach! There were white people and brown people (and I'm talking about intensity of tan, not race);  skinny people and fat people; tatooed people and empty people; long haired people and short haired people; fully dressed people and nearly naked people. I really wanted to take pictures of all the contrasting people, but I just didn't think it was right.

Here are the bathing beauties. Don't they look great for being in their 80's?


What is this girl doing? Whatever it is, it's quite popular.

I was mesmerized by the different bands of color in the ocean. These two pictures show them. The turquoise bands would come and go and I couldn't figure out if it was reflection of the sun or something within the water itself. While photographing the colors, I happened to catch a parasailer.

Advertising technique at it's finest:

OK, so I took one picture of someone while I was people watching. You don't see a guy in a business suit (right down to his dress shoes) at the beach too often. I even saw him on the phone once, but I couldn't get a good shot of him -- between him moving and other people walking in front of me.


A gust of wind came through, blowing this umbrella inside out.

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