tidepools & injuries.

this weekend, i decided to go exploring again... this time up at perros-guirec. at the bus stop, i ran into jo & joe, which changed my plans a little... no problems though, because when the weather turned from simply lovely to cold, it was nice to share a café in the company of friends.

while perros & ploumanac'h are only five minutes away from each other by car, literally right next door, they're worlds apart. both are touristy indeed, but perros is, in my opinion, much more heavily populated, and the ugly downtown area there, with its many cafés & a casino, is much more unattractive than that of the quaintness you can find up at ploumanac'h. kinda like charlevoix, but more concrete. however, if you walk down the beach aways, (or climb, like i did), you can get away from some of that over-developed commercial district.


you can't tell from the picture, but i was sitting on the edge of a cliff of sorts, after climbing up a couple giant boulders.


and if i'm correct, said boulder is to the left... sweetness.



i kept close track of the tide, for fear that i might get stuck somewhere, but as it was constantly going out during the day, i figured i had little to worry about. the receding tide provided a plethora of pools, tide pools that is, to poke around in... unfortunately, i did not carry a big stick. oh well. next time.



one of the highlights of my day was finding this little guy & "rescuing" him... he's cute here, but he puffed all up to look pretty scary when i poked him with a rock.



safe & sound... and back in the water where he belongs.

so about the injuries, you ask... actually, only one real injury, and even then, it's nothing out of the ordinary in my book. i was hurrying a little faster than i should (normally, i'm extremely careful on the rocks, as they can be slippery or unstable at times, and i know it'd suck big time if i really got hurt), and as i made my final leap out of the rocks & onto sandy firm ground, i cracked me knee pretty hard on a protruding rock. needless to say, it's left a lovely bruise & a lasting impression. i wonder if the doctor will give me a hard time about it at my medical exam on friday.


yeah!