It may be pouring this week with the long awaited January rains but last Saturday it was still summer at the beach.
We had forgotten how much we loved Coolum...what with babies and friends who move overseas and lumps in breastage and whatnot.
Even after a few years though it is lovely to know that some things stay exactly the same.
Other things are decidedly new. We found some dragon fruit at the markets there and brought one home for the kiddos to try. It looked more like an exotic tropical fish than a fruit or a dragon.
Some tried it, some liked it...an acquired taste I think. It might be nice in home made ice-cream?
Anyhoo it was SO pretty to look at, the taste didn't matter.
Mostly we hung out at the house or mooched at the beach. I revelled in my first surf in over a year. It was strange and liberating and very healing to go in monoboobular for the first time. I should have done it ages ago but needed a quiet beach for the occasion.
The girls were nonplussed.
It takes a lot to put us off our beach swimming...even the various odd jellies on the beach were not worth thinking about too much when there was fun to be had!
This is Silicone Sal, my new chest friend who is very like a flesh toned jellyfish. She had to stay on the sand as I don't know if she is waterproof. I waited till the walkers had passed by then whipped Sal out of my rashie and bolted for the water. It was a self conscious moment overcome immediately by the sheer joy of having a surf again in the perfect clear glassy Pacific. I later suggested to Lala that a smaller jelly fish might fill the job just as well but she did not share my enthusiasm.
It looks wonderful, I could just do with a sunshine injection myself! Glad you are enjoying the sun, sea and sand! :) x
ReplyDeleteHi to Sal, NOT to be confused with a jelly fish, methinks! So glad to hear you had a good day on the beach. (And what a beach!) Axxx
ReplyDeleteYou make me laugh Annie, always a positive slant. One must be careful to pick up the right jelly blob. Has this rain reached you yet? It's certainly not losing any of its sting the further it goes. Stay dry, and enjoy these lasr couple of days before the school humdrum recommences.
ReplyDeleteThere's jelly fish and then there's prosthetic fish ... I wouldn't mind having a gander at the beach today, it sounds wild outside. We don't head up the north coast. It's more relaxed and down-to-earth than the south coast, by the looks. I think you need a dog.
ReplyDeleteI love Shorty's bathers! the little frills on the -straps are so cute! Looks like a great beach, and must have a very healiing swim! I haven't swum at all in the 12mths, wonder what what will make me get back in the water....
ReplyDeleteSo glad you swam! We wanted to see a beach this weekend, but crazy weather has put a stop to that. Glad Lala got another dog fix.
ReplyDeleteOh you are so many kinds of brave and wonderful! All I can say is that it is lucky you were not on our beach as Roboboy would have collected that "jellyfish"of yours right up and made it a feature ottoman in the mermaids garden! Glad you have escaped to the beach before all these big rains. mel x
ReplyDeleteNarwhals Narwhals swimming in the ocean.
ReplyDeleteOh dear! I had just got that ditty out of my head!
DeleteAh gosh, boobs and beach.....they are treacherous for more than one of us, I can tell you..........mine are so breastfed worn out that they have to be piled into a bra to brave the waves these days....a bra under bathers, now thats sexy....I think not worrying about how we look for our kids sake is brave, its empowering, and you know, I always think as long as we are swimming around in that healing water with our chidlets, I dont care what I look like............the beach is freeing like that, its good for your soul....big boobs, no boobs, one boob, small boobs, floppy boobs, saggy boobs...jelly fish boobs......glad you got a surf in...sounds amazing.........xxx
ReplyDeleteI'm wearing a bra under the rashy now so there's something to put Sal in for the walk down!
DeleteThey are quite a pain these jellies, aren't they?
well done you on braving the beach, hurdle overcome.... just go for it!
ReplyDeleteHa Ha Annie, glad you blogged it! Dee Dee suits La La.
ReplyDeleteI was a bit nervous as I thought it might offend the troops but, as usual, they rallied!
Delete"Monoboobular" - what a word!
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen a jelly fish for so long I'd forgotten they even existed.
I am going to share your new word with my monoboobular ma-in-law, she'll love it.
ReplyDeleteLala needs a dog!
So she keeps telling me...
DeleteExcellent! Good for you. Nothing like a spot of sea bathing, as they say in the classics
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