“No matter how dark the night, somehow the sun rises once again and all shadows are chased away” ~ from lyrics by David Matthews
The day breaks revealing a busy morning of shelling at Blind Pass on Sanibel/Captiva. Can you remember being a kid and playing a game of hide & go seek? The best hiding place was always a closet. As you sat in the closet being quiet and trying not to be found did you ever try to see your hand in front of your face? That is dark. If you are at Blind Pass on Sanibel/Captiva at 5am it's called "pitch black". The 5:45am lowest minus tide of 2013 coincided with a new moon which means no moon - no light at all except for the hundred's of thousands of incandescent stars glowing across the sky. As we stood in the empty parking lot of Turner Beach g earing up for our shelling expedition on the beach below our eyes slow ly became accustomed to the early morning pre-dawn sky and the outlines of shell pil es started coming into view . My strategy for being the first one on the early morning beach is to do a quick scan the...