Nighttime at the Beach
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007After a long day of building one fence and playing with dead things on the shore, we had some more wine. We had some more wine (imagine that) and I went for a bush walk with Sea and Jay.
Okay, a bush walk can mean anything from walking down the street to going down the trail to the beach. Ours was the latter.
We had to “avoid the giant frilled water lizards and night stalking bandicoots” on the way down. You won’t find those in Wikipedia, they’re just creatures we made up to represent the scary stuff that probably WAS lurking in the bush to attack us. Two city boys and an American girl drinking red wine on a trail to the beach. It was sadly similar to the beginning of a teenage horror movie. Considering Jude (who presumably knows her way around the place) took a huge stick to kill any snakes that may appear in the path, walking down in the middle of the night in flip flops may not have been that wise. Obviously we made it out.
Of course the beach was beautiful with the moon and the sand and the rocks. I really hate that you can just run in to the ocean or do cartwheels down the beach here. I guess you can, but you risk being stung by scary things. It didn’t seem to occur to the boys that anyone would ever do such a thing.
– Carrie
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