We Live Here

During the school holidays, our local beaches have many hundreds of people that flock to them daily. They become busy, crowded, and parking can be a nightmare.
At other times of the year, locals get to enjoy the beaches in all their glory, in relative peace.

These pictures were taken the week before the holiday break.

We haven't been swimming at the beach really in January. We will probably wait for school to go back, the holiday crowds to disappear, then will spend some time there in February. It's too easy for K to just jump in the pool at the moment at the end of the day, when we get home from work. To go to the beach, we have to make an effort. 

We live in a place though envied by many. We must make more of an effort to get to the beach :-) 

My Oh My

Have we grown.
Rumble is 8 months old.

He's a pretty good alarm. Although an outside dog, he has worked out what time our alarm goes off and normally starts belting on the door about five minutes before this, trying to find out where we are. I haven't needed the actual alarm to wake me this week, after being back at work, at all. Unfortunately, this morning he was 15 minutes early. This resulted in consistent banging from 4:30am - on a Saturday!! At about 5;15, I gave up, and got up so the rest of the family had a chance to get some more sleep. I need a 'turn off the rotti alarm' plan for the weekends clearly. I'm not looking forward to tomorrow morning.

Water and Sand

Although we only live 10 mins from the beach, we actually have more than enough water and sand a lot closer to home to keep K entertained.

I think Rumble actually enjoys the sand more than K.

 Like two warring knights, both K and Rumble claim their castle.

K has fun rolling down the hill, just as she would if she was at a dune at the beach.

Rumble does a good job of protecting his castle from the Blue Knight.

Unfortunately the sand fun is time limited. The Yellow dragon (aka bob cat) will probably tackle these piles tomorrow and leave them flattened across the yard.