A Rain Bonnet!

Team Cheri got back together for a long walk and talk and some beach therapy....this is my favorite walk, Bowmans toward Blind Pass.  It changes so much between each of my trips down here, and it's great for therapy.  We knew that there was a possibility of some rain, but we decided to go for it anyway.  The colors in the sunrise was amazing, these pictures don't do it justice...

The red tide was obviously present here, worst I've gotten into since I've been back.  Unfortunately there were dead fish present, of so many varieties!  This Cheri found this baby Cowfish...

There were 'normal everyday' shells, and big pieces of broken Whelks all along the shoreline....I was picking up a few surf clams to bring home to paint...and low and behold......a Scotch Bonnet!

 It was just sitting there waiting for me!

SCORE!!

Cheri found a Pear Whelk egg casing that she tossed back into the Gulf 

and this nice Sharks Eye....

We were kind of keeping an eye on the clouds around us....

and of course we were a long way from the car.....

We picked up the pace a bit heading back, Cheri collected balloons, fishing line/net and ribbon tied around the trees in the water...she nearly filled a bag full of stuff she had to cut off of the limbs....

When we got about 10 minutes from the car, our time ran out....the bottom fell out and soaked us both....!! 

That's okay, it was still a great day....and I got a rain Bonnet!! ;)

I picked up a few more surf clams, large scallops and buttercups to paint...

and, as you know, I can't resist the orange and the Biggest Jingle, a nice piece of coral and Cheri picked up a  tellin for me... 

Stay tuned!

::Hugs::