The beach at night...fun or creepy?

August 2, 2010 by thinkhappy

Tonight was fabulous...I think! The boys and I made the most delicious fruit smoothies, grabbed our sweatshirts and flashlights, and headed for an evening walk on the beach. We arrived at dusk--the cool evening air sent my hair whipping across my face, and the boys did the "watch me fly away" dance that children do, with their arms out at their sides and their faces turned toward the sky. Waves slapped against the shore as we made our way across a hill of rocks to the point, where a sole red light blinked on a metal tower twenty feet above our heads. We took photos of the boys with their arms angled as if they were holding the tower up, and several in the mighty "King of the Rock" pose. As the sky blackened and the air grew cold, we turned back and headed toward our car. By then the boys had shed their sweatshirts and carried their shoes in their little sandy hands. With the wind at our backs, and the night quickly closing in, a creepy feeling came over me. As a mom, I know better than to say anything that might scare the boys, so I held my lips closed and tossed aside the eerie feeling, when suddenly, my son said, "Without my sweatshirt it feels like something is behind me, following me, creepy." Uh, yeah! My thoughts exactly, but that's not what we say to our children, right? We laugh it off and tell them not to be silly, as I did.

But I have to ask--have you ever been alone on the beach at night and felt an eerie something? The wind, perhaps, or something more...