Into The Blue (Part 2)

Saturday morning, and it was the day for crabbing/beaching. I felt much much better. My muscles were not aching, and all I had that day was a bit of running nose and a slight cough. Good day for the beach. The beach was fun.
Initially, the meeting time was supposed to be 9:30am. But the mothers complained, so we all went at 10:30am. We ended up getting there late at 10:45am, so we were expecting the Tehs to be there, seeing that the Toh's were following us. Strangely, they weren't! They finally came at 11:15am. tsk tsk tsk, in my books, that's unacceptable. 45 minutes late. hehe
Anyway, while we waited, Tim, Tiff and I just started with a bit of kicking around with the soccer ball. It was good. The weather was nice with very little wind. Not long after, our foot started to turn red from kicking the coarse sand stuck on the ball. When the Teh's finally came, the parents started their crabbing session.
We just left the parents doing their sitting around with the crab nets as we just went off into the other side of the beach. The walk was approximately 200-300m, so it was a nice stroll under the warm sun. They wanted to find some crabs to catch. We ended up finding 2 baby crabs and other miscellaneous sea creatures like puny starfishes and some weird clam-sucky thingy. Not exactly sure what it was. It was quite fun actually. It was nice to just hang out with a bunch of kids and do really childish things for once. None of this "I'm old and mature, so I have to be all serious and orderly" business. It was great. And nothing beats spending this time with great friends. Friends are good.

We came back, and met up with Chariz. She had to do her violin exam in the morning, so she came later with my mum. We quickly had lunch, and we decided to cross over to this island opposite to where we had decided to dump our stuff. It looked really nice and flat with lots of sand everywhere. We had to cross over using this one lane bridge over the water. It took about 4-5minutes to get across, and when we did, it was so full-on windy! It didn't look windy at all from where we were. It looked so calm, but when we went there, it was so strong, my slippers/thongs were flying off the ground! Sadly, our plans to play beach soccer there didn't happen, so we had to go back. Pity though..
When we got back, we set up the goals and started playing. It was Tim, Tiff, Corliss and Thomas on one team, and Chariz, Sylvia and myself on the other. We played for an hour or so, and it was irritating. The ball kept going into the water, so we had to jump into the warm water and come out into the cold air. haha, and when people did go into the water, someone would usually shout, "Bay Watch"!!! lol, and when they did, the person getting the ball would usually do some 'sexy' movement. Well, sometimes they would. lol. I know I didn't.. hehe, I reckon I looked 'sexy' enough without the extra effort.
And getting out didn't help when it was considerably windy. On top of that, I still had my cold. So whenever I had to jump into the water, I was concerned about my cold. I had to go in a few times. That made me quite cold throughout the whole 'match', which we won (hehe, I'd like to think so). But the match kinda ended when people started mucking around with each other and sand, as I kicked the ball so poorly, it curved right into the sea. Unfortunately, no one dared to jump in and save it, so it ended up drifting away about 4-5 metres away. By then, Tim had to swim and retrieve it. I really wanted to get in but I think I went in enough to catch another cold. Good thing Tim was there. He did the BayWatch and removed his top for some rescuing action.

The wind started to pick up after the match. We were cold, so Tim and I decided that we'd build a sand wall to block the wind. We managed to do it, and quickly gained the interest of Chariz and Sylvia. They wanted to have a seat in the wall, so they helped us build it. We finished it, but Emily told me later that it looked like a grave with 4 pairs of legs sticking out from a whole. It was good for the first few mintues. But with the wind blowing so strongly, it started to blow the dry sand off the surface of the beach and into our eyes. It was bad. My eye turned red that night and lasted for 3 days.

Around 4:30pm-5pm, Tim, Tiff, Corliss and myself decided to go for a final walk down the beach. The walk down the beach turned into a walk up a cliff, up the cliff some more and down to the other side of the beach where the waves were absolutely beautiful. Tracking back a bit, when we went up the cliff and up the cliff some more; we stood at the top of the cliff and were almost blown away, literally. The wind (and beauty) was so strong, it was awesome! It felt like I was gonna fly away. Good thing I'm weighing a good 64kg, so I was being held down good :) On top of all this, the wind was cold! We weren't really wearing much. I was wearing a singlet and a jumper with shorts. With my cold, it wasn't too good. It's was breath taking, but cold too. After that, we walked down to the other side of the beach. There the horizon was endless and you could see the waves rapidly coming in one after another. We sat on the warm sand and admired the beauty of the scenery.
We walked back, and had dinner at the Teh's place. It was there that I realised it was my birthday in a few days time. Uncle Edward said, "The birthday boy should eat more chicken." And I was like, "Who's the birthday boy?"

At the end of the day, the parents had used 4 crab nets and had caught 0 crabs. And to think this was the 'legal' period to use nets.