After a cold and misera-bubble day yesterday, featuring damp descending with enthusiasm (filled the pool again), today had cheered up a bit. At least it didn’t have the chilly gale that rendered my morning swim yesterday rather unpleasant. Of course, this morning featured the water chilled from yesterday, so I was happy to complete my quota of swimming strokes for the day and climb out.
It was then decided, though, to head for the beach. I resumed shorts and sandals I abandoned a few weeks ago when winter did a comeback, and off we went. The new monstrosity being built on the edge of the slope enabled me to pinpoint where our house is; a person would need to be quite far out to sea to spot our own buildings. The houses on the skyline, centre, are in front of our place.
This is the part of the beach below where our home is. The enormous crowd visible in the centre is our family party.
What can be seen between houses and beach does explain where the wildlife wandering across our garden — particularly by way of monkeys — is able to hang out when not busy visiting humans. Of course, some of the wildlife, like snakes and toads and ibises, does just fine by simply staying in our garden. They don’t need this forest patch going down to the sea.
A habitat in the city for numbers of wild creatures. Also, if one is not careful, for squatters. There is, also, a path going up some distance to the left but it is not as convenient to our home as we would have wished.
One may see the monster-housitty that is growing up to obscure a chunk of our view, and blocking the side view of a friend who lives to the left of it, at the top of the hill here:
The houses between us and the sea. They have no direct access to the beach as we used to have.
Here we have a closer look at our area of interest.
Should you be a YBK (Yellow-billed kite) wishing to fly over our home, you would set a course directly between the monster-housitty and that house with the angled roof to the right of it.
The beach features some good areas for rock pool exploration at low tide, and for that strange species snorticus snorkelarius to flip around in.
Several flipping flippers are visible here, and also the tips of snorkels if one could magnify enough.
There is lots and lots of sand and water to provide all the amusements children find in sand and water. The swimming areas are provided by a tidal pool, and by bathing beaches further along to one side and the other.
That is the tidal pool in the background.
Need I mention that the foreground features the grand-girls?
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What wonderful proximity to the ocean and I can imagine hours and hours of exploration and enjoyment. I’m sorry for the huge house blocking some of your view. That’s a battle played out here in Southern California coastline neighborhoods as well. I would be very frustrated!
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The sea is a glorious asset indeed. As for these inconsiderate loons with their petty palaces, I often think longingly of high explosives!
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I sometimes wish that I was able to swim, then I think that it’s better off that I can’t, I’m bound to have finished up as entrée for a great white.
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Actually, great whites don’t really enjoy munching humans. The vast majority of ‘attacks’ have simply been a case of misfortune or mistaken identity. The authors and makers of ‘Jaws’ came to realise that they had adversely affected the ecology by giving these sharks such a bad name and creating the hysteria that followed.
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Never saw the film; don’t even know the plot (I suppose there was one of sorts).
I think they are beautiful animals and it annoys me when someone gets taken by one and all the idiots want to go catch and kill creatures who are doing what fish do, grab a bite to eat in THEIR domain, not ours theirs!
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On the same mentality as dolts here who happen to see a snake and then react by clearing a vast swathe of natural vegetation around their properties.
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You have those idiots in South Africa, too, do you? And here was I thinking Aussies were unique
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If I remember rightly the plot deals with this resort where the locals try to cover up the fact that it is a tourist-eating spot — for great whites. So, more people get chomped to the sound of some particularly good scary-mood-setting music.
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Glad I missed it!
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How lovely to be so close to the sea!
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‘Close’ is relative. I do miss our previous home where the garden ran down to the beach, and my early childhood home at Knysna heads where the lagoon was ten steps or so from the front door!
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So wonderful for the girls to enjoy.
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They definitely get fun out of it.
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Great place for children
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I wished I’d had one like it as a child, permanently instead of very sporadically.
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Glad to see you making full use of your local amenities!
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Don’t do it often enough, actually!
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Must be getting warmer there!
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Spring is toying with the idea of changing to summer, indeed. But still diving back to winter every now and again.
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We’re doing the “polar” opposite! Lol
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Nice description of the area (sorry for the monsters infesting the hillside).
It is nice being able to scamper down to the beach when one wants to commune with the ocean. I shall miss it when we move back to the mainland.
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Even with monster the beach makes up for it.
I don’t think I would be happy too far from the sea. Tried it; didn’t like it at all.
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The funny part is — if there is a funny part — is that we don’t do anything other than look at it. We don’t fish or swim in it nor do we own or get on boats. Basically, it’s the view and waves and sound of waves. Over two years on the island and the only saltwater I’ve touched is the occasional few drops from an overly-enthusiastic wave.
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Enjoying the sight and sound is reward enough. Being in, on or under is a bonus. I love boating but have come to hate fishing and fishermen.
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I would use the term Planning Permission but I guess you would respond ”What? Are you completely mental?”
Looks cold and mis., much like up here in Joeys.
I can handle a day of rainy weather but that’s my lot.
Besides, it is interrupting my house painting.
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It is, as far as I am able to ascertain, completely illegal. However, we know to our cost the futility of trying to do battle with someone who can out-bribe you at every turn.
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We have a large block of flats and loads of beach huts along the prom adjacent to our beach here. You cant see the water from our house, but you can sure hear it!
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Living near the sea adds an immeasurable amount to one’s quality of living. Such a pity so many such dwellers don’t bother to derive the benefit,
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