Christmas Day Sunsets
[West Beach]

Cooler, but clear & bright. Lazy AM of presents & breakfast.

You have to see the vintage 1950's garnet & diamond ring Tony found for me! He scored big points with this bauble. [grin]

Family phone calls. Sun on our faces by pool with books then off for a drive to old downtown Pensicola and back to watch the sunset from West Beach.

Awesome colors. Small but pretty shells for days, probably because the tides had been a bit high for the gulf the night before.

I can't really speak for Tony, but I have decided the neighborhood/area we had spotted before in West Beach/Little Lagoon is still my favorite by far. Now to find a place there...ahhhh! Need to go walk neighborhoods in daylight. Make note of names of streets, street #'s and beach access points. Access is a major issue in this section of the beach as most of it is private only.

The sunsets were a perfect way to end the daylight hours. We then headed back to the condo to indulge in the pile of shrimp purchased Christmas Eve and steamed to spicy purrrfection by Chef Tony.

[All sunset views from West Beach near 13th Street. Small pictures are all clickable for larger views. Apologies in advance for the red to bright yellow tone artifacting, especially at lower resolution viewing. The files were getting rather huge at a higher quality so required high reduction for webviewing.]