We are still experiencing strange sandbars and tidal pools on the beach even with a change of wind direction this week from easterly to southerly. The tidal anomaly pictured here reminds me of what I imagine the landscape on Mars would look like, minus the condos that is... as far as we know. ;-)The red sand is from crushed coquina shells and coquina rock that dominate in this area of Florida's east coast. There were several years when there was very little of the red sand on our beach, then with the hurricanes of 2005 it came back and is still here in large patches all along the shoreline. The red sand is much softer than the white sand in this area and therefore prone to being shaped by water currents. I find these little rivers, with bumps and swirls to be visually interesting and small marine birds seem to enjoy bathing in these nature-made bird baths. Kind of like a sea spa I suppose. It's too bad they all flew away before I could capture them in a photo for you. Maybe some other day.
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