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I've never been a beach person - nor much of a water person for that matter - there are only lakes and rivers in the land-locked Prairies scoured out of the ground by the glacial action of the last ice age and the meltwaters of the Rocky Mountains .

But, I think I could be...

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2012.11.23 Island of Lights
 
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Christmas is approaching. Carolina Beach bills itself as the Island of Lights and tonight is the "Lighting of the Lake." A lake next to the ocean? Yes, a lake, 2/3 mile in circumference and once noted by the Guiness Book of World Records as the closest freshwater lake to saltwater. Around Christmas a number of themed light structures are erected around the lake and other places around the town. Tonight the lights are turned on.

But first, some pics of a large cloud formation over the ocean at sunset.


 
  

 
  

 
  

 
  

That white dot is
the half-moon
  

 

The Lighting was a short affair, with a couple of speeches, a school choir singing some songs, free hot chocolate and cookies, and then the lighting.   

 
  

 
  

 
  

 

From a later walk around the lake, counter-clockwise, roughly in order.    

Elf feeding a reindeer


Swans
   

Lighthouse
   

 
 


Oops! Missing a fish
   

Something for the Jewish people


 
   

 

 
   

 
   

 
   

One of several lit gazebos


 
   

 
 


 
   

Animated: the reindeer's feet move

Animated: the train's wheels turn

 
   

 
   

 
   

 

 
   

Animated: The doplins move from left to right
    Unfortunately no Christmas tree this year: it broke during the last storm and couldn't be fixed in time.
 
 
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