(Another) One of the things that I am loving about our new place is exploring new areas on my morning walk. We have lots of hills around here which I really enjoy walking or even jogging up. Sometimes I just take huge strides up them. I'm not trying to 'lose weight', or 'get fit'....I am just totally having fun and open to the moment. Like the other day when this little furry one and I watched each other for a while...
The scent of the bush in some parts of my walks is so delicious that I could almost roll around in it, except that it's hard to figure exactly where it comes from...it's the trees and the earth and the bushes all together to make the most exquisite perfume...it's definitely where I walk very slowly and breath very deeply!
Every morning just before 7am, we have a choir of rainbow lorikeets come to our balcony for some honey and a little seed bread. (They are Loud!!) No need for an alarm clock around here!
The black swans are an almost daily visitor to our place, but they were not impressed when a new winged friend decided to see if she could also get a free feed...
As neither was going to back down, they eventually settled for keeping a close eye on each other.
This is what my kids were doing when the neighborhood kids were at school...
...they boys were in the kayak, which has a clear bottom... In this pic, Nicholas is in the front, but facing backwards, and AJ is in the back, but bending forward looking at the little fish going past the clear window. Sam is further out, pretending to be fishing, in the canoe.
...there they go...
I've been watching stand-up paddleboarders for years now, thinking that I'll have to do that one day, but just haven't gotten around to it. It's not the kind of equipment that is easily available second hand, but I got to thinking that a windsurfer board is awfully similar to a stand-up paddleboard (SUP). ...Put the intention out there and look what the Universe provides...We bought a windsurfer for $15 complete with mast, sail etc!! Nicholas got up on it right away and uses a paddle from the canoe. A 'real' SUP is probably a little flatter and slightly wider, but it's also hundreds of $$ more. This board has the grip along most of the board so it's not slippery at all. I'm comfortable kneeling on it (and using the canoe paddle to get along), even when it's windy out. I will get a longer paddle and have more of a go of actually standing up on it. So glad that I found my wetsuits so I can keep playing on the water all through the up coming winter!
Some of my friends have asked if it's "safe" to swim in this creek....aren't we afraid of bull sharks? Frankly...No. I refuse to live in fear! I am confident of my ability in the boats and on the board. If I fell and a shark did get me, then I accept it as my time to go, and at least I would go doing something that I loved! The chance of that happening would be so remote that I'm not even going to try and compare it to anything. My focus is on Love...doing what I Love, feeling Love, spreading Love....DeLightFull!!!
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