# 22  

.  .  .  and beyond  

The Beach

It was the August holiday Monday.  P and R and their 3 boys, were heading off to the beach for the day and invited us to tag along.  Oh yeah, I forgot to bring a swim suit even though our hotel had an indoor pool!  Go figure.   Shorts and a top were fine cuz the ocean was really too cold for me anyway.

We packed up a cooler for lunch, checked out of the hotel and headed off to Sandy Beach.  They weren't kidding.  The sand was red, of course, and hot under foot, and seemed to stretch out for miles.  I'm not much for sun, so I was enthroned on a lawn chair with an umbrella and really enjoyed the day at the beach. The three boys found baby crabs and made a crab nursery out of a hole in the sand.  Buckets in hand, they ran relay trying to put water into the pit, but to no avail.  It dispersed into the sand as soon as they poured it in.

Over the course of the afternoon, the tide went out.  Little sand bar islands appeared as if by magic, and by the time we left for Fredericton, our beach area had increased about 15 fold. It's the first time I can remember seeing that effect work so drastically.  Cool!