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It's been in the hundreds here since Monday

JonesCarpeDiem
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I took my camera and went to the beach today.

The first place I stopped I got drenched right after I took the picture of the pier. 🙂

I went back to my truck and dried off my camera with the napkins for lunch as best I could  🙂

Then I drove South 9 miles to Tamarack Beach Bluffs where I felt it would be safer for my camera.

I hope you enjoy the photos.

Notice the reflections in front of the wave of the surfers and the wave breaking.  I can't remember ever catching those in my prior pictures.

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The picture below is looking South from where I stood to take the other pictures.

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All the pictures below are from 200 to 300 Yards Away

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Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.