A flashback.
August of 2011. Camp has run it’s course. The kids are home. The sun is shining bright. The air is warm. The sky is clear. It’s a perfect beach day.
I load the kids and their friends in the car and we take off on our 3 mile drive to Lake Michigan …
And as we near the beach, a Stephen King-worthy fog descends …
It engulfs us …
It gains in strength and density. Until you can barely see more than a few feet in front of you. And the air? The warm air is warm no more …
Always the optimist when it comes to the beach I say “it’ll burn off” …
So we park. And we unload the car. And we hit the beach. And we wait. The boys go for a closer look at the water but the lifeguard ushers them away …
Even the thought of an overpriced hot dog and overpriced slice of pizza is not enticement enough to stay …
… and 10-minutes later we’re packing up. And we drive home. And the closer we get to home, the clearer the skies become. A mere 3 miles away, the skies are cloud free. The air is warm.
And that’s my flashback to our shortest – and freakiest – beach day ever.
Linda,
That is so sad.Never a good thing when you look forward to something special and then the weather does not co-operate.
Anne
Coming from the UK I never trust the weather, great photo though!
That pesky fog sure makes for an awesome shot though, doesn’t it? 🙂
The Cockatiel Project
oh… i feel your pain. i live in chicagoland, too. what’s with the weather lately? i long for one full day of sun… and temps over 70 degrees!
great photo, though… it says so much! came here via wordless wednesday. love your blog!
I love the beach. Rain or shine, it’s my happy place. Lovely capture
What a stinker! I probably would’ve cried!
Oh my gosh. You just totally described San Diego. SoCal is full of “micro-climates.” I live about seven miles away from the water. It can be an absolutely clear and beautiful day here and foggy, gray and miserable at the beach. They call it “the marine layer.” In May and June (when we experience “May Gray” and “June Gloom”), we wake up to fog–even seven miles out–and it slowly burns off as the day goes on. (I am watching it do that as I type, in fact.) But at the beach it will still likely be cloudy. Possibly for the whole day. When I first moved out here I felt quite duped by that!
That IS freaky! So weird how the weather can be completely different in places that are just a few miles apart. Last September when we were in Maine, it was a beautiful & sunny day but there was so much fog on the coast, you couldn’t even see the ocean. Which totally defeats the purpose of going to the ocean! And the fog was literally right on the coast – as soon as we drove away, it was bright and clear.
Hope you have lots of sunny & warm trips to the beach this summer 🙂
Kelly
I’m glad you left, this story was scaring me! I think I heard the music from Jaws as I was reading! Three miles, I’m jealous!
Creepy with the fog and the weather change! Wow! I thought the Mid-Atlantic had weird weather! WOW!
That is really such a beautiful picture! And don’t you hate it when the sun doesn’t cooperate! Funny enough, I adore all the cloudy stormy days I get…all 3 a year. 😉