Entries this day: Beach

Beach

8:36am Monday 19 February 2001

Last night I woke with a start from a dream where a kangaroo came running up toward me, protecting his territory. I was all, "ahhh!" and I woke up.

12:35 pm

We are Nick, Irene, Wende, Bryn, Tom and Rob, driving to the beach somewhat close to Melbourne. Been listening to country music (Dixie Chicks, I think) and talk talk talkin'.

Waking up this morning was pretty tough after only 4 hours of sleep.

We are low on petrol (gas) but Nick isn't worried. ("No worries, mate.")

This morning I told Bryn about the Pets.com commercials, starring the dog sock puppet. Very funny.

Oh, I also described my skating accident from 1995 or 1996. She was like "wow. why are you still alive?"

2:33 pm

Wow! Swimming was in pretty cold water with pretty big waves. A sign warned of riptides, so we didn't go out too far. The sand is the same color as galveston, but larger grains.

We successfully body surfed a few waves and had a generally good time. I dug a hole and buried my lower legs. Because the sand is such large grains, it was super easy to get out. Also the sand was only damp, not soaked.

6:21 pm

The second beach we attended provided several samples of broken glass that had been polished by the sand and surf. Wave pools stretched over the water on either side of the beach. Wende surprised me and actually got in the cold-ass water, and Bryn stretched out for a nap.

Nick, Irene, Tom went walking out to the wave pools while I dug myself into a hole in the sand.

We left for the official swimming beach, which consisted of almost zero waves, and sand sloping in such a shallow manner that Tom could be 100 meters out and only be up to his knees in water.

I took a shower using pretty hot water. When I got back to the car, Tom sang, "it wasn't a Rob; it was a Rob Lobster!"

Now we are taking Bryn back to the airport.

Wende and I are getting married in 487 days; Bryn is going home in 142 days; we will see Bryn in 163 days at SWUUSI!

7:37 pm

This is cool. We are on a tollway that uses cameras to determine who is on the toll. Bryn is using the cell phone to tell them we are going through it without an electronic tag. She gave our license plates, car make, model, color so that we won't get a $100 fine.

8:34 pm

Beaner's plane is being pushed out of the gate now. I cried after she disappeared down the jetway. Big Big big big hugs and even a hello to YAC on the video camera. I'm chewing gum that she just gave us each a piece and I'm never going to throw it away.

10:30pm

The gum got gross; I threw it away.