Warriewood Beach

It was a beautiful sunny day yesterday, so we decided to head to the beach.  The boys were excited as we hadn't made it to the beach these holidays.  We headed north towards Avalon, and chose Warriewood Beach.  It's a nice little beach with surf life savers, lots of families and a few body boarders. The water was a beautiful clear aquamarine colour, except where the waves met the sand it became rather muddy.  The sand was very gritty, a little different to Stradbrokes smooth soft yellow/white beaches, great for digging nonetheless.

There was a bit of a drag in the surf and every time the waves crashed on the steep shore they sucked you back out to sea.  It was nice if you found a break in the waves where two waves met, that way you stood a chance at keeping on your feet.  I took Ethan out first and we jumped over the waves or ducked under them depending on their size.  I had to hold tight to Ethan as his feet couldn't touch the bottom, instead he stood on my knees to keep his head above the water.  Next Sam came out, being a little taller Sam could stand up.  However he didn't like the idea of ducking under the big waves, he would have preferred to have his head thumped by them instead.

Meanwhile Donald and Toby were digging a pool in the hope of some waves reaching and filling their construction. 

 We all got digging, the diggingest dog would have been proud of us.  

Ethan & Toby had their own little hole.  

Sam just enjoyed toying with the waves and his imagination.  

The tide was up so our pool got filled many times to the point of disappearing all together. At which point we decided we'd had enough sun and trudged back through the hot sand to the showers to wash a little sand off and head home in our stinking hot car.

Soon after we got home the Southerly Buster came through and cooled us all down, leaving us wondering if it had been a hot day at all and had we really just spent the morning at the beach!!

I also forgot to mention that a day at the beach wouldn't be complete without ice blocks. Donald pulled over at a petrol station and bought us all lemonade ice blocks plus one big raspberry slurpy to share. We all had our eyes on the slurpy whilst licking our ice blocks, it was sitting in the centre console in the front of the car, when Donald braked suddenly.  It wasn't sitting in the console anymore......in fact it was all over the console, gear stick, hand brake, floor need I say more.  The kids were almost in tears at the loss of their coveted slurpy. Trying to keep the tears at bay (the kids and mine) I grabbed handfuls of clean slurpy and shoved it in their mouths as I desperately tried to mop it up as we drove along. :+/