Fluctisonant

‘Fluctisonant’ is a rare word for “sounding or roaring like waves.” It’s little used today, which is a shame.

So many different memories and images of various beaches around the world.  They are big, they are small, they are rippling and riffling.  There are decumans, and spindrifts, swashes, that are undisonant and fluctisonant.  I have been fluctivaganted, beached, ripped, and chopped by waves.  I’ve seen bootyfloss and the 9-eyed monkey, while watching folks go puffins on the beach.

So hang ten dude! And for sure, I have no idea if I used the words above correctly.

In this big ball of people, I’m just one grain of sand on this beach. Aurora

beachy: Goff; Merrildsmith; Ted; Debbie; minustide; Sherry; Dianna; reflect; murray; crispina;

Life of Value

Beach Day – short and sweet.  This is the first time I have travelled to the beach and did not actually take pictures of the beach.  For some reason I was much more interested in the journey then the actual time spent there.  I hope you find it as interesting as I did!!

Fait alone will lead you to – – –

One big wave…always on the move

Cheri Lucas Rowlands posted a great theme this week on the Daily Post.  I have decided to interpret it with my favorite moving object.. no not myself…..

“Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.”

― Sarah Kay

While in Vietnam I decided to take a rest stop and catch my breath in Danang. I was super exhausted from the hiking, biking and canoeing marathon and just wanted to take a couple of days and rest at the ocean.  I woke up one morning and decided to take some photos of the sun coming up..and later the sun going down. I stood in one place and just kept on shooting photos of the always moving waves.  From the same exact spot every single picture was so different and so beautiful.  I hope you enjoy.

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came.

John F. Kennedy

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“The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can’t.” 
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

Arthur C. Clarke

Here are some other photos of my beach time.

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I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

Drew Barrymore

Would you like to join in? For some of my other favorites please visit –http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_photo_challenge/on-the-move/:

1. Up and Down – Mittened Hands
2. WFC: Move – Every Photo Tells a Story
3. The Sheesha Place – Cardinal Guzman
4. OTM – The WordPress Chronicles
5. OTM – 2812 Photography
6. Small Town Port – Empire of Lights
7. WFC: Moving – Cee’s Photography
8. WFC: OTM – Across the Bored
9. WFC: OTM – Wind Against Current
10. Wanderings and a City – Notes to self
11. WFC: OTM – Lucid Gypsy
12. As Near to the Ocean’s Edge – By LRose
13. WFC: OTM – Roland’s Photo Blog
14. WFC: OTM – Far Flying Dreamers
15. WFC: OTM – Stephen Chapman
16. Cityscape 2528 – Art is Horseshit
17. WFC:OTM – Wise Monkeys Abroad
18. East West – Yi-Ching lin Photography
19. Three generations, one bike – Cambodian Beginnings