Thursday, October 29, 2009

Peacefulness at the Beach




Every day we rush around: chauffeuring kids, working, and doing errands. Everyone wants a moment of peacefulness. They want a place to go relax and to calm their minds from the everyday stress. Some people go to different places to try to find the perfect place to relieve stress: spas, gyms, and parks. An amazing place to go to relax would have to be, the beach. The sound of the waves crashing and the cool wind blowing tends to have a calming effect. The beach is a calming place to sun bathe and to take long walks at night. If someone lives near the beach they can just open their window and listen to the sound of the waves crashing to help them fall asleep. If you don’t live near the beach, stores sell recordings of waves to help soothe you into a nice sleep in the middle of the country.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Loggerhead Sea Turtles

As I walking down the beach on a late summer night, I almost walked on a logger head’s nest. I thought about the long migration those turtles had to endure just to come to Florida to lay their eggs. I then realized that the baby turtles must be hatching soon and decided to watch them try to survive the adventure to the water. As soon as I made that decision, I witnessed out of the corner of my eye a slight movement in the sand by me. I became incredibly excited and then witnessed a tiny turtle struggle to come out of the sand. Remembering the laws I knew that I couldn’t help this turtle make the adventure to the water, he had to make that trip all by himself. Many dangers lie between him and that water. He could run into countless predators and die. When he finally reached the water, I was overjoyed with happiness for the baby turtle.