After a morning hiking to an inland cave we stopped for a couple of hours at a beach to relax and swim. This was not one of Thailand's famous beach resort areas but the water was warm, there were plenty of shells to admire and we did not have to fight off crowds of people. Layli and Aja enjoyed splashing around freaking each other out with stories of things leaping out at them or swimming by them... always a laugh ... Brother thomas was trying to figure out how much deeper the ocean would be if it was not full of sponges soaking up water or was it how to grow sponges to soak up all the extra sea water that's going to be around with global warming. So while thomas pondered and while the sisters were on jelly fish watch and jumping around I relaxed and got some beach-therapy ... ahhhh the truth of Isak Dinesen's words “The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.” ... after the morning sweating, climbing to the caves, now I have the sea... and it has me... but I hope it doesn't get the girls... and no one gets my brother but he will probably find the solution to global warming... but till then I will contemplate the beauty of local beach warming..
Aja's comment: how come dad looks like the only sane person? I remember him jumping at a beetle when it flew at him (when we didn't) when will he tell that story?
Ah the beach, the sun, the sand, the surf and the spawnges...
ReplyDeleteClever play on words... no one gets Thom...
ReplyDelete@Aja: That's one of the other reasons you need to write your part in this blog! And you and Layli truly look like sisters in this picture.
Do we? well we are full blood!
ReplyDeleteI learnt my lesson about collecting Shells... dont try to keep the ones that havent yet washed up on shore... they might still have a creepy crawly inside!! AH!