Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Different strokes. Despite my Viking ancestors, that water made my lips and the skin under my fingernails turn blue. Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone ----- Reply message ----- From: grduprey at mchsi.com To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Subject: [Leica] Beach Date: Sun, Dec 2, 2012 6:09 pm Only cold for a few seconds (OK maybe 30 sec.), used to go to the beach in So. Cal all the time in the summer. Gene ----- Original Message ----- From: "jon.streeter" <jon.streeter at cox.net> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Sunday, December 2, 2012 12:15:33 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: Re: [Leica] Beach It looks -- bearing in mind I've lived most of the last 50 or so years in southern California some of that time across the street from the ocean -- a wee bit bleak and short on palm trees. Strange as it may sound, the water here has always been too cold for me for swimming because a southerly current parallel to the shoreline causes the surface water to be constantly replaced with cold water from the depths. It's just as well: on hot weekends the freeways are clogged with beachgoers who don't know the water will be unpleasantly cold. Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone ----- Reply message ----- From: "Douglas Barry" <imra at iol.ie> To: <lug at leica-users.org> Subject: [Leica] Beach Date: Sun, Dec 2, 2012 7:40 am Here is another view of my swimming spot on the beach at Bray. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Seafront/DangerBeach.jpg.html While the initial approach to the beach seems to show it as very pebbley, it changes to sand along the shoreline which is a lot easier on the tootsies... Google Earth gives a fuller flavour of the place http://goo.gl/maps/EU7P3 although streetview obviously didn't take their camera car up on to the Promenade itself :-) RoI Douglas _________ Douglas Barry Bray, Co. Wicklow Republic of Ireland _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information