Our first day at the beach!

Yeah! our first visit to the beach... We went to gold coast today, to surfers paradice beach..
here are some pictures...

Here is the beach..seen form our "basecamp"
btw: the pictures are taken with my phone..

And to the one side...it was the same to the other side
No point in take to pictures of the same thing.


And here are some of the people we went with..

To be honest, it's not a easy trip to make.. It's actually a hour train ride and abount 25 min with bus to get here... But I suspect that there is an easier way to get there but that is not the route we took to day...
But we managed to arrange a huge gruop of people for the trip, Vegar took the challange and called almost everyone in his phonebook...and the result? well we were about 16 people in the group... now that's not bad...hehe :)

Going to the beach here is something else, not what I expected at all... You don't take a swim here... You just go into the water and try to stay alive against the waves...
You have to either jump to get over them or dive under... and they come in quie fast sometimes..

But it's very fun.. to "wrestle" the waves.. they actually push you back into the beach quite good.. powerfull thing this water.. hehe...

At the first picture you can see a red and yellow flag.. there are two of them on the beach.. and you are supposed to "swim" between them... and its about 100 meters between them..
At first when we were told about this at the orientation at school I could not see the point of this..
Why only swin in this little area.... Well now I know.. hehe.. the lifeguards have a huge job watching over all the people in the water, and I can understand why they want to narrow their search area.. Because it's dangerous out there..
The waves are very powerfull and can litterly knock the wind out of you... and the rips carry you out into the ocean...and they are equally strong... it's quite the fight out there..

So in addition to getting to finally take a swim I also got quite the workout.. :)
and possibly a little sunburn...

But I have to say.. today has been a very very good day:) good friends and the beach is a good combo... and I'm sure I'm going back for more :)

-Lars-