Monday morning was a bright and sunny day down here in Victor. School was cancelled for Show Day and Kindy got cancelled due to lack of available staff(ie. Show Day...lol), so armed with buckets and spades, we hit the beach.Waitpinga Beach is about 15 minutes down the road and is a really dangerous swimming beach, but great surf and fabulous white sand beaches as far as the eye can see. It was 18 degrees so we weren't planning to swim, we planned to sand castle with a vengeance.
We walked 1/2 a km south along the beach, crossed the river at the inlet and set up camp. As you can see, the kids got straight into some serious construction. I used the time to run some laps in the soft sand. Running barefoot rocks! Every so often, one of the girls would bore with the sand castle and come and join me for a few races, which they won hands down every time.I wandered a bit up the beach and down the river, taking some photos, what a shock!
We ate some fruit when the castle was finished and admired the girls' fantastic creation. Then there was time for some hopping races and some jumping - soft sand is so versatile and forgiving on the joints - some admiring of dead sea creatures along the shoreline, some cuttle fish collection and it was time to go home.
Again the girls amazed me. They were tired at the end, but they had experienced a pretty athletic day and yet had not complained at all. Little champions!
