The beach is crazy right now. Zillions of those little purple things with little sails (not the jellyfish but if anybody knows what they are called please tell me) washed up so the whole beach looks lavender. Tiny little jellies the size of half-dollars, and slightly larger bells that look like they came out of those single-serving fluted Jell-o molds. I go ahead and pick them up - they are so pretty and transparent. Gazillions of teensy baby sand crabs lurking just under the surface of the sand, making their little air-holes and wiggling like mad if you dig at them. One dead sea lion that the crows were enjoying (have you noticed that the crows keep getting bigger every year?). Lots of sand dollars. A bulldozer on the never-ending fruitless quest to put the sand back in the water. The guy with the really long-tailed kite that he flies for hours on end, making spirals and loops . All this in one walk. BLACKENED BEACH WHORES