Hello Dhaaarlings...
Princess...
And the Empress...
Are off for a seaside adventure!
It's the Easter long weekend and as We've not had a holiday for so long have decided that this is now the time...
The Empress has her baggage packed already and will be joining me on our sojourn...
I've not been to the seaside for probably over 10 years and have almost forgotten what it is like to dip ones stocking clad foot into the foamy brine...
I'm looking forward to having that salty fluid sprayed and sloshed upon my person once again...
I'm hoping to revisit some of the beaches of my childhood...
Miles and miles of white sand, rolling surf, rock-pools full of starfish and sea-squirts, unimaginably strange and wondrous critters that scuttled and darted or swam or squelched and slithered incredibly slowly or just lolled about... Even some that glowed in the dark turning, waves and the sand the vegetation the power poles and even the toilet block in the camping ground... into something I imagined was a glittering fairyland.
I remember seeing my first Blue Ringed octopus for real! In one of the rock-pools that we as kids would swim in when the tide was low. One of the park rangers had found it and had it out of the water and on the sand to show everyone what they looked like...
I remember how utterly disappointed I was at seeing its actual size!
It was so tiny in comparison to it's deadly reputation
(Although it still can be quite deadly)
Read about them here
I remember walking along the beach with my grandmother to caves that were only accessible at low tide to hunt for
green agate and for "pipi" shells to turn into necklaces strung together with dried grasses...
Hopefully we will find a spare bathing box
One must maintain some dignity and a modicum of decorum
Yet I am lead to believe that they are a little more "up market" these days...
And of course...
We shall be hoping to spot one or two of these...
Bottoms Up!
And have a Happy and Safe Easter break...