My Summer has officially started.

[lirion]

I don't care what calender system you are using, Summer starts for me with my first trip to the beach. And what with Melbourne's lovely weather of late - Oh look 30 plus degrees! With a late afternoon thudnerstormy change. No beaching after work then :( - this has not happened until today.

Finally! The water wasn't even that cold, it had been sitting under the nice warm sun all day until we got there at 3pm. It was also brilliantly clear. And it was delightful. There was much frolicing to be had. Absolutely lovely. Nae and I both agreed that words could not describe how good it felt, refreshing and invigorating and relaxing all at once and together :)

We spent an hour in the water swimmivg and boucing and diving down the the cold bottom. And floating, feleing all those muscles jsut give up and release supported by the gentle waves. Was all very peaceful. And yet I had so much energy in the water, running and jumoing and diving. I love the beach.

Before dragging outrselves out to lie on the sand in the late afternoon sun. And grabbed a last quick dip before we left. Of course, having been lying in aforementioned sun and getting ncie and warm again, the water was somewhat crisper this time around. But still wodnerful.

The beach is such an intrinsic part of me. It's a fix that I must have :)

Ther will be more beaching, hopefully quite a lot of it. Today just happened to be a perfect start :) And ther were barely any flies. the was a bit of a wind though, that may have been keeping them away somewhat.

And it was a perfect end to the (very busy) weekend really. A good weekend all round. Very social, much party goodness and am glad I made it to them. And a big thankyou to Thorf for prodding my recalitrant back into place on Friday night before I left, it made the rest of the weekend that much better :)

Now I'm all relaxed and happy and it's time for bed :) I'm tired from all that fresh salt air goodness.

Comments

[vaingloriesque.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I haven't been to the beach at all this Summer... sounds lovely. :)

[lirion.livejournal.com]

No eiter had I. And now I feel better :) It was most glorious.

[lordstorm.livejournal.com]

So very jealous right now. I'm not one to allow myself to see the sun much, but there's something about taking a dip at an Australian beach......heh.

Of course, you can't do that here, unless you like a nice serving of pneumonia. Walking to work this morning had me wary of the frost and slippery footpaths, and icicles of condensation on every car's windscreen. Even then, England's idea of a hot summer's day is a top temperature of 20deg. Aie.

I'll be back in Australia temporarily in March, and by then I'll be pining for a double-digit temperature. *laughs*

[lirion.livejournal.com]

I'm a terrible goth I know, but I love the sun :) I do the sunscreen thing and all (though I still tan) but I just love to luxuriate in the sun, getting all toasty warm and thenc ooling off int eh sea... Give me my vitamin D!!! :)

YOu see, much as I'd like to do the whole white winter thing, I'm not sure I'd want to live in it... THough that might be that as it's still only the start of Summer I haven't fully charged myself up with ebachiness yet. I'm not always this bad for it, but after most of a yeah... :)

We will definitely have to get thee to a beach in March then. Look forward to it :)

[neve-regina.livejournal.com]

shouldn't you have the Summer Queen as your icon?

[lirion.livejournal.com]

Another friend uses the Summer Queen :) And the Snow Queen just suits Me better. And aside from those factos, my paid account expired and I ahven't gotten around to sorting out which 6 icons of the many I had I really want, so i just keep using the default :)