Turtle Beach

Today we went out to Turtle Beach for a surf lesson. We meet Dude (I don't remember his name) on the beach. He gave us a few steps to follow and then we were paddling out. Basically Dude would wait in the water with us and when a good wave was coming he would say paddle hard. Which was really all we needed. I stood up and surfed the first wave in. Sadly I did not bring the camera with me so we have no shots of us surfing, yet. But below is what else we did that day. 

We see a lot of mopeds on the roads here. Not as many driving down the sidewalk.

Can you find the Pineapples?

There are a lot of Bugs here. 

There is plenty of room in a civic coupe for two people and a surf board. 

As long as the passenger does not have a head.

Topher doing his usual on the beach.

While surfing earlier in this water, sea turtles would just swim right by us. They were everywhere; They would come within a few feet of us. So I decided to take Topher's surfboard out and try to get some pictures of them. 

Just hanging out in the water; Not seeing any turtles. I finally found one but could not get a picture of it. Wow, this is not sounding like a very good picture day. But I promise turtle pictures by the end. 

I did find this coconut shell just floating around. 

There is not a lot going on in a panoramic of the ocean. 

I tried to make another panorama, but had some problems. However it kind of looks like a little island that is just floating on top of the waves. I thought it was fun so I posted it.

First nice sand castle I've seen.

Topher starting to branch out of his usual.

Look who I found.

This turtle guy was just hanging around by the shore munching on some grindage. I went up and said hi and she/he slapped me five, well okay it only has one but same thing.