Raining!

This morning you would not believe the rush to get to the beach. Everyone, spurred on by Emma's enthusiasm, rose and dressed quickly, stopping only to apply sun factor as liberally as possible. Here's a warning for you - some sun factor lotions go all thick and nasty after a year, and you can't get them to apply easily. I don't know if I got burned because it had lost it's efficacy, or because of the fact that I spent most of the morning in the water, but my back is a bit sore this afternoon. But the surf is AWESOME!! I'd dried off, and was heating up nicely when I decided to go back into the water. Of course, it's just like starting again, as you tiptoe over the waves, trying not to get yourself splashed until you're used to it. Which is why I can't decide if it was good or bad that a young chap chose exactly that moment to come in my direction - it was either get crushed and soaked, or leap to the side and just get soaked. With choices like those, and no time to make them, I leapt nimbly to one side, crashing down into the very wave he was surfing. Well, I suppose it saved on squealing like a girl at every splash...

So, after the crushing disappointment of not being able to get any electricity, we were able to find a converter, so we can plug things in at the facilities. Of course this requires that someone sit with the equipment, as the chap from the next door tent informed us that someone actually stole his phone when it was plugged in before. He did get it back, but I can imagine that an eee pc would be quite a lure for a light-fingered camper.

The afternoon was very hot, so we relaxed in the shade with books, planning our assault on the supermarket. It had already become apparent that chairs were going to be needed for the girls, as we had had to move both children on at least once after our showers. So along with the power adaptor, after sun (aaah) and more food, we also bought a couple of camping chairs for the girls.

To my surprise, it's just rained very heavily - it didn't last long, which is good, but was quite heavy. The wind whipped up, the clouds moved in, the thunder roared, and the lightening flashed - all before we'd had a drop of rain! Then the rain started, large drops, from nothing to chucking it down in very short order. Since it's quite late now, we're not going back out of the tent, but we're starting to settle down for the night.