Ze Goat Island

Outdoor pursuits. One of the things I love about summer in New Zealand is everyone gets outside and flees the suburbs to the beach for the day. Yesterday I pursued this humble tradition and jumped in a car laden with people, supplies and snorkel and headed for Goat Island. The only thing I was missing was a bottle of L&P. So after being cramped in a tiny roasting car for over an hour I finally arrived at the beach along with the other half of the city hot on my heels. The next part of the day was pursuing the quest of finding the ultiumate beach spot, which is never an easy task. Do you opt for the sunny spot, or some point with shelter from the wind or do you look for somewhere with shade (which will eventually move anyway)? In the end the only spot that was available was in the sun anyway, so it was time to let the sunburning begin. I have since one terrible episode in Thailand been very careful being out in the sun; I even have factor 50 sunscreen. After about three coats of sunscreen I was ready to hit the water. The best thing about Goat Island is the fact you can snorkel around and see heaps of fish (though my childhood memories have way more fish there than there are now), so it's like swimming plus.

I'm still getting my head around this blogger thing. I used to use Livejournal a little and some of the functionality over there was quite cool. For example the Music and Mood settings were quite cool. I could write about what I was listening to, and my mood, but there were cool little tabs instead over there. I guess that lead to the type of people who use that site. Perhaps people who want to 'outcool' you on their music choice were there, or perhaps even people wore their mood on their sleeve. I'll have to try adding some photos sometime and see how that goes.