Beaching it.

Australia has beautiful beaches. There is no question. We visited a few beaches over our first 3 days along the coast and they were all breathtaking and each had it's own charms. Although the weather was cooler by Australian summer standards and a bit overcast, it didn't deter 4 of 5 of us from venturing into the waves and doing a little body surfing and playing. We collected shells to look at and went for walks along the shore. We quickly learned respect for the force of the waves as we saw riptides and some of us got "road rash" from being slammed by the surf. We saw actual surfers and that gave us the urge to try it out hopefully soon.
One really cool thing was when we were at Fingal Bay, the waves were about 8 feet high and people (Sam, Jake and Dan included) were standing out and being lifted up by the waves before they crashed on the shallower beach. It was like a great carnival ride. Jack and I were standing a little closer to shore and would get pushed back by the force of the foamy crashing waves. When the waves would move back out to sea, Jack would call it "flushing the toilet" because of the water getting sucked back out. Anyhow, someone called out "dolphins" and there was a dolphin silhouette actually surfing the wave that all the people were in! It was so cool! I raced to get my camera and got a little footage but it was after they moved back out a bit more. It was so amazing that we were able to encounter them in the "wild" like that - right at the beach!AWESOME! Here's a clip of that below and a Smilebox of some beach photos. T.

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