Sunday, May 14, 2006

Back from the Beach

Just got back from oen of the two beaches near my place. Beaches in Canada - go figure, hey? Just kidding. ;)

There's an interesting contrast to an Australian beach. There are still girls in bikinis, but they're wearing jumpers as well. Guys are standing around in jeans and two layers of shirts. Noone is swimming, just "sunbathing". It's only 16c.

But in Australia you would never get the whole scene you do here. Long sandy beach with snow-capped mountains not too far away. Beach and snow. People playing around with frisbees and badminton racquets amongst the sunbathers (they can do it because the beach is 'divided' by rows of logs). Once the weather warms up a bit more it'll be a great place to go and have some chip sandwiches and just relax for an afternoon.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I believe you can have beaches in wintertime too :D See, all you need to do is go "oh look! A snowbank! Each snowflake is actually a grain of sand! It's warm when you have 20 layers on. Toasty even. And you can get a tan.. on your eyes.. your only exposed skin" :D Yea, so you have to exercise that imagination a bit! but possible!

Anonymous said...

Put up a picture please

Anonymous said...

I agree with Lynn. A picture please.