When you take a look at photos from today's walk, you will probably think how lucky I was to have such great weather... Clean air, a few clouds, the sun, almost ideal... It does look like that, and I was (almost) blown away on my #WednesdayWalk, but literally blown... 馃槂
Looking at the first two photos, you could think... Firefighters are fixing the traffic sign that was hit in a traffic accident... WRONG! That sign fell because of the strong wind that we had today, and it was still happening during my walk too...
Well, it's not that it was a surprise for me as I was checking the weather before I left home, but I had no choice... I mean, I did, but I didn't want to miss my daily walk... 馃槂 Orange warning for wind today and yellow warning for Friday afternoon...
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Can you spot what's missing at the top of this building?
There you go, a couple of roof tiles fell off... Luckily, nobody was hurt...
I was well prepared for a walk... A hat, a hoodie, and a jacket hood! 馃槀
Let's have a short class about palm trees... In the example above, you can see how a palm tree SHOULD look like...
What you can see in the distance are examples of palm trees suffering from strong wind... 馃檪
This one above is still standing, but for how long?
Fallen brother... 馃槬
Here we can see another group of drunken palm trees... Too much whiskey?
If we remove the strong wind from the equation, the day was really beautiful... The golden hour was near, and I tried to take a few photos of the sunset...
I have passed by this tree dozens of times, maybe even a hundred, but believe me or not, I still don't know which tree it... The logical guess would be an almond, but the thing is that most of the almonds in the area are blooming in February, and not now... The other guess is cherry, but not sure about it... Maybe I will pass by in the late summer/autumn and check it out... 馃槂
The fact is that it's beautiful in bloom! 馃槏
Back to palm trees... This one was definitely drinking rum...
Photo by tenor.com
Position of these three flags reminds me of the Moon landing... 馃槀
More drunken palm trees...
After an hour walking in nature, we are back to civilization, and the problems of a man...
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Is it a bird?
Is it a shoe?
...or just a forever-lost children's kite... 馃檪
Another firefighter's truck and 2 police cars in the mini-golf site... I was close to it, but some kind of "accident" happened inside the place, so I couldn't see what... Probably something fell because of the wind...
Speaking of fallen things, this is the local park which is usually closed in these circumstances, BEFORE the bad weather hits the town...
...and with a good reason... These big eucalyptus trees aren't prepared for such strong winds... They are not as flexible as palm trees, and things like this happen to them very often...
Take a closer look at these flags... They look like they came back from a war battle... lol... They are torn by the wind!
A few paragraphs above, we had an accident at mini-golf, and this is a fallen tree that was literally uprooted from the ground at the local golf practice field...
Back to the seaside, to check that battlefield... The first one explains the beach facilities, and the second one says that dogs are forbidden on the beach... The irony of this is that besides the wind, the dogs are guilty for these fallen signs... The bottom of the sign pole was urinated on so many times that the wind didn't have a tough job breaking it... 馃槂
Trash bins all over the place... Checkmate... Wind won!
Thank you for your time.
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