A few days ago, the wind picked up, and walking on the beach meant getting your legs sandblasted below the knees. Otherwise, it was beautiful; blue skies, interesting and somewhat violent sea, and no-one on the beach. Not a good day for exposing the camera...
We walked for about half an hour and returned to put on our shoes. My shoes had almost a cup of blown sand in them!
Of course, any walk on the beach will leave footprints 'on' the beach right?
I made this photo of my footprints 'on' the beach the next day or so when the wind wasn't so strong, so pictures could be made without getting sand in the camera.
This camping rig is owned by one of the volunteers at Grayton Beach State Park. Quite a way to travel: one large motor-home with bump-outs, one large enclosed trailer with an air-conditioned garage and storage for this neat Ford 'Model T' bucket rod, and still more room to squeeze in a full-sized four door Saturn.
As they say, anyone can be uncomfortable...
Only the bucket part was purchased already made but not painted, everything else was essentially built from scratch! Those with sharp eyes will note that there are no front brakes; the back disk brakes have double pistons and stop things pretty well. Bob was replacing a supercharger front bearing as I was making these pictures yesterday. This morning, the car was entered in the Annual Rosemary Beach Car show!
This car show is held on one of the boulevards at Rosemary Beach, one of the real interesting housing developments along 30A, the local beach road. I had some pictures last year [ http://notesfromaway.blogspot.com/2009/03/car-show-sunset.html ] and will try not to repeat myself.
This perfect 1939 MG TC has been in the family since 1954 and was restored recently. I congratulated the owner for owning and showing such a fine specimen and he motioned that his son was the guy who wrote the cheques and made it all happen. As it turns out, the car is faithful to it's design in every detail, except that MG never did such a fine assembly or paint job in its 40 [?] years of existence.
This perfect car has now become a 'trailer queen', well shielded from flies, mud, road vibrations, and all the things that used to make this car so much fun to drive. [One face-lift too many, as they say...]
Here's a 1967 Thunderbird with an absolutely gorgeous very rare two-toned 2000 Toyota Solara in the background. But I digress...
Those of you with enough experience might note the pair of Drive-in Theater speakers just beside the rear white walls.
1958 was the 50th anniversary of General Motors and they celebrated by adding a lot of chrome on their new models. This is a Buick Super, four door hard top.
Yes, that is an original grill!
Here's a back view. Can the imagine that the higher priced Roadmaster had even more chrome!
I think the next one is a 1953 Buick Roadmaster two door hard-top with a few after-market add-ons.
This next one is owned by our landlords here at the Hibiscus Cafe and Guest House. It has all the modern conveniences like electric windows and seats, air-conditioning, power steering and brakes [disk brakes all around] and a honking big Corvette LZ6 engine. It should be a very comfortable and fast driver.
The next one is a fairly rare Chevrolet Bel Air Nomad, just beautifully done up. Other than modern wheels and being lower than stock, this is pretty well as it was made, with a far superior coat of paint than GM could ever make.
Last but not least, a new Smart car with a wonderful white dog with a very positive attitude towards car shows. Dog's life? You betcha!
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