Beating the heat

Two weeks without a post! No, I haven't turned into a great big pool of melted butter - we've been at the beach without internet. I thought I would miss it but to be honest it was rather nice. I read a lot of books, and we are not hard core enough to do without our other electronics, so played silly games on the phone and watched trashy television and dvds. And spent a lot of time in the sea...



Even when the rest of south-eastern Australia was baking at over 40 degrees it didn't hit 30 in our little pocket by the sea. And the water temperature doesn't really warm up! You have to squeal when you get in the ocean, otherwise it's just strange.



Yesterday was Australia Day and the local surf school organised an attempt to break the world record for the number of people surfing a wave at once. The record is 110, and they had 280 surfers, but they have to be on the same wave for ten seconds for it to count. They were very organised but waves being waves and people being people ... it was fun to watch. They still don't know if they broke the record becuse the Guinness people have to review the video footage, but they raised a good bit of money for the local surf life-saving club. The life saving helicopter was there too - I'm not sure if for support or to stop people drowning. Probably both.



So we are very very relaxed and contented and well pleased with ourselves for getting such a workable little beach place. It was so easy to live in, and we had friends down for the weekend and the boys slept in a tent on the lawn, and that worked just fine. Work this week will be a very rude shock...