Beach.

We have been having a beach holiday around Hobart. On Wednesday we were at Bellerive Beach while the first Sydney - Hobart maxi yachts were racing up the river:

And yesterday we went to friends' farm beach. It may have been 16 degrees, gloomy and threatening rain in Hobart - I was so convinced we'd be sitting around drinking tea inside by the heater that I went without a bikini. Yet forty minutes outside town it was perfect beach weather and I found myself cajolling Mimi into lending me her bikini for a swim:

It was spectacular:

Between three couples we had 15 children:

For dinner we had abalone and flathead from the beach. It was an idyllic day.
R