standing on land’s edge
water draining back to sea
feet sink deeper still
Spent a couple of days with the kids at the south coast this weekend. When I say south coast I mean the south coast of New South Wales … the Sapphire Coast if you listen to the tourism bods. Canberra you see is a landlocked capital and about 2 hours drive from the coast … not very far … and a pleasant drive too. It just seems a long way when you’re in Canberra but not very far at all when you’re standing with your feet in the waves. It was cold by the way … it being winter down this way and the water temperature is around 14-15°C … a bit too cold for swimming but vibrant on the toes! The water was beautifully clear.
These pictures were taken with my phone as I stood watching the kids muck about in the sand and rockpools. I adore that feeling as the water drains from it’s sigh up the beach and sluices sandily past your feet … and … if you wriggle your feet … you sink a little … somehow becoming more fixed to a point within an environment ever-changing … it’s the kind of juxtaposition that does something for me – it really does. A little seaside pull 🙂
Natural therapy for feet 🙂
Hehehe … thankfully the therapy doesn’t stop with the feet 🙂
The ocean works its magic on many of us. Reminding us how much of our bodies (and brains) are water? I don’t know, but there is always a sense of home-coming.
And I need to go down the coast again.
Soon.
Beautiful post – thank you.
You do, Sue … you do! It’s not that far really … and every time I’m there I wonder to myself why I’m not there more often. And I do think there’s something in that … the return to a watery ancestry … 🙂
wonderful!! it takes me about 5-6 hours to go to the sea so this is unfortunately a little more far away. but in my memory i feel cold santa barbara’s pacific waves playing around my toes… 🙂
Five to six hours is a long haul for some beachy goodness! Seems we have our toes playing in the same ocean 🙂
You took me to the seashore–thanks.
My pleasure Sally … glad you could come along for the ride 🙂
I always have to smile when you describe what you call winter, especially as the pictures are clearly showing you bare feet and in shorts 🙂 The Baltic Sea is so much colder with the highest temperature in summer only being about 17°C on average as I just researched, in our winter it’s close to or even below the freezing point. I have also often heard and read that the North Sea is even colder and people actually wear neopren suits when they go swimming. When we were kids, we used to open the swimming season at the beginning of May when the sea usually has slightly above 10°C as we couldn’t really wait any longer. I’ll be heading north again in a few days and as we have an unusually warm summer this year, the sea has warmed up to about 24°C so it will be more like a bath 🙂
It always so beautifully clear in winter. A two hour drive is really not much and the sea is always worth a visit, not matter what.
That made me smile … it is Winter I tell you 🙂
it’s been -7°C the past two nights here in Canberra and that is kinda on the cool side … granted it’s warmer at the coast … OK warm enough for shorts and bare feet and waves around your ankles … and pleasant sunshine whose heat is taken more or less instantly by the cool sea-breeze. It didn’t stop the kids splashing about and gradually turning blue before being pushed complaining into hot showers to restore their colour. OK it’s not winter on the shores of the Baltic I’ll give you 🙂
nice legs!
They do it for me Marialla … useful for transporting this head of mine around too 🙂