Autumn On The Beach
Today was officially the first day of Autumn, but surprisingly it was a really nice 26°c outside! Lou finished a little earlier than usual from training at work so we thought we'd make the most of it and head down to the beach in the early evening. We went to what is known as 'Spanish Bank', which is quite large and split into three sub-sections. We went to to Spanish Bank East which overlooks the city. Apparently the first european explorers of this particular area were Spanish and the beach got it's name after the English led by George Vancouver met the Spanish lead by Galiano and Valdés in June 1792.
The journey is only supposed to take 25 minutes from our home but we probably picked the worst time to go! We left home at 5pm and the traffic was heavy (and also the sun was at that annoying stage when it really gets in your eyes!) but we had no rush. It took us just under an hour to get there (only 16km aswell!) but it wasn't too bad and at least I got the chance to experience rush hour driving first hand.
We had a good walk around and I was tempted to go for a swim in the sea but it had started to cool down a bit and Lou could not be persuaded to join me so I just had a paddle ha ha! Well, you have to get your feet wet if you go to the beach, my Grandad taught me that! A bit further down from where we parked there was a pier so we went had a look at what people were catching. There were a few people catching crabs (some for recreation, some for food) and a few people fishing too. One guy caught a little shark whilst we were waiting (a dogfish maybe, I'm not sure) which was pretty cool to see.
There were a few people having their dinner down on the beach, they were all prepared with their mobile BBQ's - they definitely had the right idea. As a man, smelling cooked meat and then not eating any made me kind of jealous so we've definitely got to try that ourselves sometime. We may have to wait until next year now though as we'll be coming into bad weather soon.
Below are a few photos we took whilst we were there.
