First Beach Day 2013

We went to our favorite spot on Sandy Beach this afternoon.

Although the water and rising tide were fine for swimming, the wind is still cool enough that we decided to stay on the shore and just enjoy the sun and the breeze and our beers. Sundown came around. I asked a passerby for a photo and noted that sunsets from that spot are actually more scenic during the winter because the sun is out over the sea. Now it’s setting behind the hotels and condominiums.

Last year a Tucsonan who has owned a vacation home here since the Eighties was telling me she didn’t like Sandy Beach much anymore. All the hotels have ruined it for her. At the time I thought it was just sour grapes for the masses now enjoying the things that had brought her here in the first place. I suppose if one of those those things was seeing the sun set over the desert and its dunes, the estuaries, and the Pinacate range in the distance all at once while sitting on the beach, I understand.