"H-m-m-m all I see are the birds. The Seagulls were nestled in their respective nests'. They had taken their extremely webbed feet and made smooth oblong impressions in the warm sand which hugged the countours of their feathered bodies in exacting detail!

"Yes, yes said Cumulis there they are indeed. Who's that rather odd person with the strange hat on?" The sea breezes became intrested in the conversation that the clouds were having. It was quite a pow wow after a while. The moisture in the air trippled as more and more of them gathered. They almost chatted up a storm as some of them dipped hazily close to the surface of the Ocean. A light smattering of rain pelted down upon the nesting birds and the man with the decidedly obtuse stove pipe hat on his head. The Seagulls took their turns gliding inches above the surface of the water. Two rather brown Pelicans flew high into the coversation that the clouds were having to see what was going on. "Ah, ease dropping.  Quite a rude a thing you can be answered the secound vapor. "I don' t think the clouds want to talk to you today; said the secound Pelican. " "Where are fish? Where are they and what's the big meeting about." "Well , the direct approach. And what about you?; questioned a large mass of cloud vapor.

"Not to be rude, but all Pelicans are not alike. We may look the same to you, however we are two different birds entirely. The secound Pelican opened his wings and glided inches above the Ocean surface, never once flapping his wings. He continued to scrutinize the surface. "O. I. C. You'll have to speak to me about the fish;stated a large plum of cloud vapor tinged with grey with blushes of chartruse. The first Pelican flew straight up and disapeared high in the ceiling of the sky. Suddenly a streak of brown could be seen flashing down into the Ocean. A bright spark of sea foam ignited the surface as the Pelican contined to dive underneath the  water. The first Seagull continued to glide. "Flapping your wings is a distinct waste of energy. The gulls hovered in mid air, darting their heads from side to side. Their eyes bore a soft almost warm quality as they were surrounded by white feathers and highlighted with streaks of faint copper. Their bodies bore a soft pastel grey with highlights of black pinstripe.

They grew in mass and intensity each gull spreading their feathers in just the right direction so that they could hover in a stationary position. When the group reached its full potential they cried out to each-other in soft yet distinct shrills.

"What are you?" Yes, Yes tell us who and what are you?"The questions continued to mount and the  man sitting on the beach upon closer inspection was not a figure of a human being. No. True from a distance it did seem as though it was in fact a man with a stove pipe hat. Sand is all it was. The closer the gulls hovered over the figure the clearer it became that it was nothing more than a mound of sand piled high enough to be seen from a distance. "It's sand called the first set of gulls."All of birds descended and began to settle themselves into niches in the sand.  "Are you really sand?" Yeah , you looked just like a man with a stove pipe hat on a few minutes ago!" "You've got to be a man, tell us the truth, were in the mood to talk to you if you got food!" "Yes, yes food; food ,food. "Here, here it's an excellant suggestion." "We'll wait it's no trouble."
The sand pile  shifted in the sea breeze and scattered against the beach.  The birds backed up at first flapping their wings as if they might take to the air at a moments notice.

The upon further consideration refolded their wings against their bodies and pecked at the spot where the sand column once stood.

A man and woman walked along the beach arm in arm. Thier two small children ran slightly ahead of them giggling and playing tag with each-other. "What's the first thing we should do if we move close to the Ocean- buy a boat?" "It's a possiablity but we've got to worry about these kids." "Buy a boat Mommy; requested the little girl she looked deep into her mother's eye's. The secound little girl ran up behind her laughing in a deep way and then in a higher pitch until she tagged her on the back. "You've got the coodies!" The first little girl fell foward and then caught her balance laughing and running after the secound girl. They ran and ran untill they reached the  Seagulls.

"Look honey the girls are watching the Seagulls let's just stand here and watch them. The couple embraced each-other and then kissed. As soon as the two little girls arrived they began to talk excitedly."What are beach angels?" one girl asked the other.  "I don't know. A school of porposies swam by the two girls and then stopped swimming in oval arcs back and forth in front of the two girls and the feeding gulls. The gulls continued to pick at the sand. 

The couple walked up to the two little girls and all the Gulls took to the air and flew out of sight leaving the couple and the two girls standing alone. The porposies remained for a moment and then began to glide silently out across the diameter of the beach. Every once in a while they arced their smoothly formed bodies out and then back into the water. Finally they disappeared from sight underneath the chop of the ocean. "Oh, mommies sorry for scarring away the Seagulls.The woman hugged both little girls and wrapped a sweater around them both. " Mommy, mommy what are beach angels. Yeah, they were here and we talked to them!" The man looked at the two little girls and knelt down on one of his knee's. "Did you see the porposes." "Yeah chimmed both the little girls; the beach Angels called them over while you were gone to help us. "Yeah, the Beach Angels didn't want us to go into the water!"
The woman looked at her husband. Honey did you see the life guard, it was such a short distance we really weren't that far behind you girls." Yes, you know mommy wouldn't let you go in the water we didn't want to scare the birds away. "Did you make freinds with the life guard is that his name Beach Angel?"

"No - there was no life guard mommy they were Beach - Angels. that's what they told us and they didn't want us to drown in the Ocean so they called the dolphins.  "Well I think it's ok they probably just made up some imaginary freinds while we were .... the man gave the woman a peck on the check. "Who's hungry?" Me-e-e-e-e; Me too the couple laughed and began to walk away from the beach when the woman noticed something and turned around. "look at this the girls must have made these impressions in the sand while we were kissing. "Let me see." The sand mystically had impressions of winged angels. I remember lying on my back and making snow angels when I was younger said the man but I swear your kisses must be filled with a magic potient or something I didn't see either one of the girls sit down on the beach they were both standing when we walked up. "I'm not going to let them out of our sight again. Kissing or no kissing.

The woman turned to  the two girls and checked and rechecked their hair. "What's the fuss about hon we can worry about their hair when we get to the Inn it's a beach relax it's not a fashion fair. The woman continued to check both girls and then looked slightly perplexed grasping both girls firmly by the each hand. "Mommies going to never let you out of her sight again either one of you do't you worry about that. When did you make the little angels in the sand. "That's what they've been talking about isn't did you do that or did the lifeguard that we didn't see make them? "They were probably just there left by some other people before the kids walked up.

"The Beach Angels were standing there and then they  went away when you walked up.I told you- they ... "They wanted to call thedolphins to make sure you didn't drown; interejected the mother. Way more careful is what I'm going to be from now on do you hear me , mommy loves both of you very much, I'll never ever leave you alone again, not even to kiss daddy.

The woman clutched both little girls in her arms and carried them walking slightly ahead of the man.