Morning is my favourite part of the day to sit here on the sun deck. Time for myself, while the others are still asleep. It is still cool and quiet - too early for the kite surfers and children. The beach cleaner machine raking the sand is too distant for me to hear. A man jogs past with his surfboard tucked under his arm, barely sinking into the sand. A hummingbird flits by my chair as I listen to wings and waves.
a lone sandpiper
stops poking through kelp —
bobs towards me