Tahiti Beach

A great weather day appeared and we took the opportunity to take in Tahiti Beach.  Tahiti Beach is actually NOT a beach at all but a sand bar right beside an inlet to the Atlantic that silts in and reveals itself at low tide.

Folks flock here to wander this slice of sand and the knee-deep waters that surround it.  Small boats pull up and thirsty boaters saunter up to the floating bar that's set upon an old barge and decorated to loosely give the impression of a tiki hut.  

Rain in the distance but the sun shone on us.

Tahiti Beach definitely has a laid back feel.  Island music is piped in through the "tiki barge", folks are building sand castles or throwing a ball for a dog.  A group of kids were playing with lacrosse sticks.

Jeff brought his sand wedge and took practise shots from one spit of sand to another (almost hitting me in the head once!).

We both spent quite a bit of time dreamily wandering around in ankle deep water searching for "treasures" on the sea bottom.  It was littered with all sorts of unusual aquatic plants or maybe animals.  It was sometimes hard to tell the difference.  One girl found a little starfish and it sucked on to her hand with tiny tentacles when she tried to lift it to show us.  She assured us it was going back into the sea right after she showed her dad.  We saw jelly fish and found a sea biscuit.

Tahiti Beach Tiki Bar.  Only here on a nice day.

The sky darkened and we could see that it was raining across the way, but not a drop fell on Tahiti Beach that day!  

We dinghied back to the boat just as the sun was setting and watched as the crowd (and the "tiki barge") left on the rising tide.

Soon Tahiti Beach disappeared for the day, like it never really happened.

If you look closely between Jeff's head and the club shaft there is a white dot.  That, I believe, is
the ball that missed my head by inches as I was dutifully taking the picture.  I didn't even realize the danger I was in until I looked over the camera and saw the look on his face.
Jeez Jeff!  Close shot.  Better luck next time!

That's the Atlantic crashing in out there. 

The tide is rising.  Soon Tahiti Beach disappeared.