Our saturday beach outing was fantastic… as usual… beach outings are almost always fantastic unless it’s the wrong weather. Which sometimes do happen. Like that time we chose a 20 degree day to go fishing at the beach. I know 20 degrees celcius doesnt sound really cold/warm, but most of the time, Melbourne get southerly winds = cold winds from the Antarctic ocean side. That day I was determined to jump into the water, cos if I don’t, then I can’t really consider myself as having been to the beach. Anyway, the waves were so strong I only tried to swim for 20 seconds and for the next 10 minutes just tried to stay afloat by trapping water. We didn’t catch anything on the hook as expected but it was fun nonetheless. Not fantastic, but good enough.
Soooooo anyway, back to saturday’s beach outing, which was fantastic. Just us girls. Nimnim & Taxi didnt’ bring their bathers so that just stayed on the beach reading & playing Nintendo DS respectively. Yaf, Oj & I spent about 20 minutes waddling about in the clear water and we realised our limbs look really white underwater and pondered on how fun it would be if we had a waterproof camera. It wasn’t long before Nimnim & Taxi had to leave to make it back to the city for their other dinner/party dates. Yafyaf brought an extra book so I read 2 chapters and listened to some music before I fell asleep, under the warm summer rays and cool breeze caressing my skin. I must have dreamt of something… and woke up and made some weird noises that I make when I wake up but don’t want to wake yet. It was so nice laying there on the beach; it wasn’t too crowded (& not to isolated either). My weird noises woke Yaf & Oj. We sat there for a few minutes, dazed and stoned and not really willing to make a move. We wanted to savour the summer sun for just a little longer.
I’m just daydreaming nightdreaming about my next beach outing now. Saturday’s go-kart day. We’ve been planning this for a few months now (the last time we were to go too many people pulled out at the last minute and the whole thing was cancelled 45 minutes beforehand & the place is actually an hour drive away and had already paid a deposit). Sunday’s Sustainable Living Festival. So can’t really do beach this weekend… BAH! But its’ such lovely weather these few days! Maximum of 24-31 degrees celcius all week!
