Sea Turtle Facebook Cover

Sea turtles are born on land buried in the sand with 1000 or so brothers and sisters. They hatch and begin the crawl instinctively toward the ocean, where predators are eagerly awaiting. Roughly the size of your palm, they can eventually grow to 15 feet long and live up to 100 years, but only if they survive the first day. Female turtles that survive will instinctively return to the beach where they were born to lay eggs, sometimes within feet of where they hatched many years earlier.

Sea turtle in shallow water

Sea turtles have been regular subject of tattoos since long before the current popularity of body ink. It was traditional for seamen in the Navy to get a sea turtle tattoo as an indicator that they had crossed the equator.

Beautiful Sunrise Facebook Cover Photo

It's been said that the only thing more beautiful than a sunset is a sunrise, because that means there is a new day ahead. Here's wishing you a bright and sunny future.

Six more weeks of winter… At the beach

Today is Groundhog Day. Unfortunately, Punxsutawney Phil has declared that we have six more weeks of winter here in Pennsylvania.

We decided to resist.

So today, you get two beautiful Facebook cover photos of tropical beaches. We hope that you will use them to help fight the winter blues with the ocean blues.

Tropical Beach Facebook cover 

Tropical Beach Facebook cover with canoe

Seashells

She Sells Sea Shells by the Sea Shore.

Thank you to Amy Johnston for sending us this great Facebook timeline topper. It reminds me of summers growing up when we would vacation at the beaches in New Jersey.

  

And this is my feeble attempt at photo painting with the watercolor effects. I like Amy's better, but this is a slightly different look for the seashells.

Thanks, Amy!

Beach Days with a Pink Umbrella

Terrific photos submitted by one of our readers, Liz. It looks like the rain has just stopped on the beach, so there's no need for this umbrella anymore.