Beach Day

We wake early this morning as Geraldine is in work at 6:00 a.m. and before dropping her off we are going to go and have a coffee to watch the sunrise. It's an early start but I'm awake anyway I'm really struggling with jet lag which is really unusual for me but I think it's because I've flown the other way around the world for a change. The sunrise here is absolutely stunning and we sit watching the Canada geese on the lake. After dropping Geraldine at work Daryl and I head back down to the lake to finish watching the sunrise. We potter around town doing the few jobs that need doing before grabbing a bit of breakfast and heading to church. There are only 15 people or so at the service but there is one lady here who is 92 and still driving she looks amazing and will be at the wedding on Saturday I promise to have a dance with her. Before we know it it's 2:00 p.m. and it's time to collect Geraldine from work. The plan is we will head to a beach a bit further along the coast and have a barbecue with some of her colleagues from work. Daryl has volunteered to be duty driver so we prepare a few things to take with us while he is doing the Uber job. When I arrive at the beach there is a little bit of controversy because we're not allowed to barbecue down there and the guy sends us to a pitch where there are huge Winnie bagos and caravans like I've never seen in my life. Van life is certainly a way of life out here. The guy on the pitch next to us complains that we haven't paid for a pitch the next thing the park ranger arrives and says we now have to move the barbecue somewhere else even though he told us to go there in the first place. I asked how much the pitch would cost and it's about 60$ so we all chip in and pay for the pitch and continue to blow big smoke into the big caravans next to us. Once the food is cooked we all congregate on the beach and half the crew go in the water but it's a bit cool for me today. A lot of the people with us today are Geraldine's work associates who are Filipino and my word what a spread of food they put on. Everything has been marinated so is so tender and cooked to absolute perfection on our caravan pitch barbecue. We spend a wonderful afternoon here eating playing games with the kids and they even get to go on one of the electric scooters that the guys have brought with them. There is so much food left over there we all get to take stuff home with us and in the Philippines they call this Sharon. We don't arrive back home till after 9 and after watching the sunset we are all exhausted and get an early night.Read more