True Blue

A summer ritual

Pack the car full with boogie boards, fold up seats, sun shelter, inflatable boat, towels, esky (containing water, mineral water, a couple of beers, a punnet of strawberries, peaches, grapes, apples, a greek style salad, vegemite sandwiches, barbeque shapes and mixed nuts) Don’t forget your hat, and where's the sunscreen? And kids, bring your spades.

A short drive later

We look with anticipation, is there any surf today, how busy is it?

The road changes to soft sand. Where will we make camp?

Park at the end where there’s no through traffic

But the surfs good here

We marvel at how much stuff people bring with them to the beach

Look they have a barbeque

Wow, they have 3 big sun shelters put together

Some families just have their car

Others have tarpoulins doing tricks

A simple umberra there or just a towel parked next to a car

I love checking out each little home by the sea as we drive by

Here’s a gap

Just a bit further up

We finally stop

Up goes the tent

Unfold the chairs

Admire your view, suck in the sea air

Feel the sand in your toes

Lather the children in sunscreen, implant their hats

Dad pumps up the boat

Mum fusses over chair and towel placement

Children are excited moving fast they dig the sand

Enter the water, ahh it’s so warm we can’t believe it




















 Our cares are washed away, we are refreshed

The water is clear as glass, little white fish dart from our feet

Clamor in the boat

Dad rows

Here comes a wave

Weeeeee we smile

It's magic

I feel like a real true blue Aussie doing this

We leave really chilled out