Life's a Coast Video Blog

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Note that the wispy clouds later became more elongated and a clip of that has been posted on the Clouds page of this site in case anyone is interested (about the third video down that page).

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"Airplanes, motorcycles, buses, boats, jet skis, motorized hanggliders, horns honking, loud music, dogs barking, ice cream trucks, people yakking and making noise, (etc., etc.) and now some lady has been swimming by right at peak sunrise, and yesterday she even stood up right in front of the rising sun!" The poor video guy, I think he's a little cranky this morning, stayed a little too long at the Tiki Bar last night...

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This was a fairly decent sunrise but our efforts to capture the best video continues to be thwarted by the increasingly dysfunctional video camera. So, if you could spare a minute, please click on “HELP!” and send an email to try to help us resolve our video cam problem.

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This right-on-the-beach, curving-toward-the-ocean palm tree is good for pictures of people laying back into the curve of the trunk -- it is about halfway between the Dania pier and the Port Everglades jetty, almost two miles, but worth the walk if you would like to experience a more natural beach and also see Port Everglades without having to go there (or you can drive into the park by continuing to go north in left lane of AIA just past Jimbo's and not taking the right lanes "ramp" to Dania Beach...).

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The local "turtle patrol" (which cruises the beach at dawn and digs up the turtle eggs for safekeeping and eventual "supervised hatchling release") does not venture into the park, so during hatching season you might discover baby sea turtle hatchlings waddling into the ocean up in JUL - see the Fauna webpage on this site for videos of this actually happening on North Beach (the turtle patrol sometimes erroneously concludes that a turtle got spooked away without nesting...) as well as information on the supervised release of the young turtles. I will coerce the vid guy into trekking back up into JUL to this spot in about two months when the hatchlings should emerge to try to capture the beginning of their trek into Mother ocean, so check back in mid July to see if we managed the feat...

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Regarding the above "typical" comment, see the video from last year's May 20th sunrise on the Best Sunrises page for a comparison of these similarities. Another similarity that you may observe, is that the month of May is when there is a noticeable decline of sea gulls along with an appearance of migrating terns.

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This weather system that has moved into Florida is a "subtropical low" that was speculated to possibly become tropical storm Ana, but did not quite make it to that intensity. It did settle over the entire state for the next couple of days, moving very slowly. Here on the southeast tip of the peninsula, we were in the middle of the "eye" of the system for quite a while, so we did not experience the heavy rain and prolonged winds gusting over 50 mph such as was experienced up in Daytona through the Jacksonville area, and it was actually pretty nice here with just occasional showers. Kind of early for an almost tropical storm, but the rain was very beneficial to our drought stricken area...

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The links below are to the other archive pages if you are interested in viewing more archived videos.

Sunrise archive for 2007.
Sunrise archive for Winter 2008.
Sunrise archive for Summer 2008.
Sunrise archive for Fall 2008.
Sunrise archive for December 2008.
Sunrise archive for first part of January 2009.
Sunrise archive for last part of January 2009.
Sunrise archive for first part of February 2009.
Sunrise archive for last part of February 2009.
Sunrise archive for first part of March 2009.
Sunrise archive for last part of March 2009.
Sunrise archive for first part of April 2009.
Sunrise archive for last part of April 2009.
You are here in the archives, sunrises for first part of May 2009.
Sunrise archive for last part of May 2009.
Sunrise archive for June 2009.
Sunrise archive for July 2009.
Sunrise archive for August 2009.
Sunrise archive for September 2009.
Sunrise archive for October 2009.
Sunrise archive for November 2009.
Sunrise archive for December 2009.
Sunrise archive for January 2010.
Sunrise archive for February 2010.
Sunrise archive for March 2010.
Sunrise archive for April 2010.
Sunrise archive for May 2010.

Sunset archive for Summer/Fall 2008.
Sunset archive for December 2008.
Sunset archive for January 2009.
Sunset archive for first part of February 2009.
Sunset archive for last part of February 2009.
Sunset archive for first part of March 2009.
Sunset archive for last part of March 2009.
Sunset archive for first part of April 2009.
Sunset archive for last part of April 2009.
Sunset archive for first part of May 2009.
Sunset archive for last part of May 2009.
Sunset archive for June 2009.
Sunset archive for July 2009.
Sunset archive for August 2009.
Sunset archive for September 2009.
Sunset archive for October 2009.
Sunset archive for November 2009.
Sunset archive for December 2009.
Sunset archive for January 2010.
Sunset archive for February 2010.
Sunset archive for March 2010.
Sunset archive for April 2010.
Sunset archive for May 2010.

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