Day 80 - Monday, Sunbathing, puppies

I am finally having the holiday I'd hoped for!  

After a beach clean of Long Beach this morning, I spent the morning ON Long Beach in my bikini, building a sandcastle of Angkor Wat. 

Honour upheld to the ancients and due given to my archaeologist persona. 

I swam in the clearest water and sunbathed on the hottest, most beautiful, deserted beach I've been on since San Blas in Mexico.  A perfect morning. 

Snorkelling in the afternoon, visibility zero due to surf/ wind.

Comeuppance came in the form of extensive sunburn on my back! I am very cross with myself about it as I have been taking so many precautions and have been completely slathered in goo for the last two and a half months.

In one of life's amazing alignments, I have picked up a mouldy, random book entitled "The Mermaid's Chair", by Sue Monk Kidd. My mind dragged up the memory of the funny little carved wooden mermaids chair in Zennor church and I thought I would try it. Unbelievably, this American author is actually referring to the same Mermaids Chair in St. Senara's Church in Zennor, Cornwall. 

Shadow has had her puppies! Four of them. They squeak, have all their grey-black, brindled fur and are blind. I guess she was pregnant! She looks positively boney now.