Not about Santa Luzia

Once again, I misled - I said this post would be about Santa Luzia - but it's not.

It's about a couple of things that I thought worth including.

A couple of days ago we were having lunch in an outdoor restaurant overlooking the ocean and part of the beach. Here are a few photos of what we saw below us. This is a quiz - what do you think is going on in photos 1, 2 and 3?

Check the text and photo at the end of this post for the answer.

That same day Ruth had done some hand washing in the morning and hung it out on our balcony. When we arrived home after lunch we found some of the clothes had been blown off the rack. In addition, there was a gull on the ledge with two of Ruth's socks which were still attached to the clothes pins - the gull was holding one of the socks in its beak. The socks had been clipped to the metal grill you see in the photo and I doubt the wind blew them off into the gull's waiting beak. I managed to chase the gull away and retrieve the socks.

I wasn't quick enough to get the camera when the gull had the socks but it returned shortly with one of our clothes pins in its beak - its antics with the clothes pin served as entertainment for the gull and me over the next 5 minutes or so. That clothes pin we have not been able to recover.

This photo gives a bit of a clue to what is happening in photos 1, 2 and 3 above. They are building up the beach by adding sand. The ship in the photo goes out a Km or so, picks up sand, comes back to where you see it in the photo, gets hooked up somehow to the large tubes on shore then pumps the sand and water onto the beach (see the sand-water mix spraying out of the end of the pipe on the right side of this photo) and the machines spread the sand around.