Lifeguard towers here and there

Good Morning, I hope life is treating you well

Toda,y I will share a few shots of Lifeguard towers at a few beaches around the area where I live

Whenever I see a lifeguard tower on a beach, I find I have to take a photo of it. I guess you could say I am fascinated by them, and I can explain why, but first let me start with a photo

THis one is on East Beach here in New Bedford a very popular beach in summer, I have driven by it a couple of times on a nice summer weekend and seen it packed, but sadly more often when I visit it early morning i see all the trash people have left behind, which does annoy me, people go to a beach because its such a nice beautiful spot, why leaveit in worse shape leaving their trash when they leave.

BUt lets focus more ofn the beauty of nature for this post

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This next one is on Jones Beach in Dartmouth, a neighboring town

Now perhaps why I am fascinated by them in my Teens, I did work for one, maybe two seasons as a lifeguard.
How that came to be, I was big into Rugby at the time and used to get up early, even back then, around 4 AM, get on my bike and ride to the local beach about a 3 Mile ride I think, then, run along the coast about 2 or 3 miles out and back, and then finish off with a swim along the coast, normally half a mile or so and back, and then head home and be back in before the rest of the family were up

But as it happened, one morning when I was doing this routine, I biked to a different spot on the beach and ended up swimming past a group swimming along together, and they came out of the water near to where I did, and one of them came over to talk to me

He was the head lifeguard and they were out training, and he said he saw I had been running and then swimming and seemed quite fit and talked me into volunteering as a lifeguard, which I did and enjoyed for a couple of seasons

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