Fun Times

This picture was taken at the same beach and on the same day as the others but I was saving this one for a specific post. School has been back a few days so you'll have to excuse me a little timing glitch but I want to mark the end of holidays.
I enjoy spending time with the young 'uns in the holidays. (Well, when I can get past the trivial annoyances that come from dealing with kids and sometimes I allow the trivial stuff to become major but you're getting my drift here...) Anyway, this is a favourite spot for us.
The building has a restaurant on the verandah and a more casual take-away inside. Sometimes we go there for lunch and then a wander on the beach or a swim. Sometimes the focus is the swim and then we get a milkshake or whatever happens to take our fancy.
The last time we were there it had been raining in the previous few days so the water was a bit murky and less attractive than usual. It was the perfect opportunity to hire a kayak, which we did, and the kids had fun paddling around the boats moored in the bay.
The boys like to explore the rocks at the end of the beach and I quite like to watch the tugs take the container ships out through the heads. (who knows why?)
Sydney's main port is just a short drive away and the oil refinery on the other side of the bay. All of that stuff is kind of ugly but I think it adds interest. I sit on the beach and marvel that we are on this pretty little beach near a major shipping terminal, with a disused fort only minutes walk away.
One of Sydney's bigger cemeteries is not too far away and we often stop there on the way home. There's quite a bit of historical value in the cemetery and we like to look at the family crypts as well as some of the headstones dating from the early days of colonial Sydney. Visiting there has sparked some interesting conversation about the afterlife, funerals, death and grief.
Anyway, I guess that what I'm saying is that I have had some good times here with my brood and I hope that we are building some good memories for them because we are for me.