Thursday, September 3, 2020

Old Bahia Honda

Rusty and I come here all the time of course and my one day off work last week we stopped by here for more than two hours, mt break from overtime and his break from being at home. I like taking pictures here as this is a place of many moods so this is what I culled from this latest visit.  Hurricane Irmal on September 10th 2017 trashed this place. They are close to completing repairs and the gumbo limbo trees are mostly back while shoreline mangroves are now only fit for use as tree sculptures as you will see. 

I started out trying to take pictures that look like photos that could have been made when the bridge was built in 1911.



After Rusty got bored looking for iguanas in the undergrowth we moved on together.


Dog: barely seen.
A green slope that could have been in...Michigan maybe? I am not easily forgetting my vacation...


After our walk through the limestone outcrops, past the old pump station demolished by Irma and starting to head back to walk the shoreline in the other direction I saw a crab which kept scuttling thus preventing me from getting down to his level. I had to content myself with playing god, or a drone, hovering from above:
And then we rambled for a good long while finding all sorts of treasures:






Tropical Storm Laura, as it then was, threw up a bunch of seaweed along the shore which makes for some bright colors:
But also happily creates an ideal Rusty playground.

Too soft to support humans the seaweed platform gives Rusty no trouble at all:


And then finally we walked the section furthest from the bridge, a gravel beach littered with dead trees made artistic and gaunt by the aforementioned Hurricane Irma. In the distance we see the youth camp wrecked by 140 mile per hour winds.





And then back to the car and a twenty minute drive home:





5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I am continually amazed at the rate the jersey barriers up on the bridge itself are just.... disintegrating.

Anonymous said...

Curious as to what Irma did to the youth camp.

Anonymous said...

What possessed rusty to dive in? I was under the impression that he’s not too keen on swimming. Very cute !

Conchscooter said...

The old bridge is crumbling really quite fast. The youth camp seems abandoned but you never know. It was completely gutted from what I can tell. Rusty cools off by sitting in the water. The seaweed makes a floating market so he runs on top. But he doesn’t like it if it gets up to his shoulders.

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