]A lone coconut parked on a people-free stretch of sand at Cocoa Beach. A not-picture-postcard-perfect sky hanging over the Atlantic.

You can (OK, if you're a classic TV fan) almost hear the "Gilligan's Island" theme in your head, at least the part about "the weather started getting rough,” and recall the many times coconuts made their way into scenes from the show.

It's stark and dark, this Photo of the Week. It’s most unlike decades of movement-, people-filled shots at Space Coast beaches taken by FLORIDA TODAY senior photographer Malcolm Denemark.

And yet, after a jam-packed-busy news cycle, this quasi-desolate scene on Sept. 17 offered a moment of respite from a “crazy week” for Denemark.

"I noticed some serious, dark clouds moving in from the northeast and headed to the beach in s

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