Shores Renewal

One week later – and  January has swept in upon the Tel Aviv shore in the form of mountains of clouds and wind-driven rain. 

Up there somewhere . . .  the cloud seeding aircraft of  the Israeli National Water Company - Mekorot - are burning silver iodide flares as part of a routine  program  estimated to add  60 million cubic metres of rainfall to Israel every year.

http://www.mekorot.co.il/Eng/Activities/Pages/RainEnhancement.aspx

But the pigeons of the Tel Aviv beach are staying close to the ground . . .

As the wind pushes thin sheets of broken waves high up on the beach . . . .

 

  . . . . from where they slip back across the Time Traveler’s aging feet.

The wind and waves are a beacon to the  surfers   . . . .

 And, with the surf up  . . . so is the surf school  . . .  as students prepare to join the instructor on the edge of the breaking surf.

. . . .  behind them are the remains of a dance club -  where, in 2001, nineteen young people were killed by a suicide bomber.  . . . but that’s before the time of an eight year-old girl paddling out to the surf  . . .

  . . . .Where the rest of surfing class has gathered. . . . .

 

No sunsets will mark this day . . . . just a cold walk back along rain-soaked sand.