russelldyke bay

another weekend, another trip to the sea saw us head down to widemouth bay, cornwall where we met up with the already-away-a-week-and-tanned-to-high-heaven bob and lucy. me and nays arrived first and were confronted with the splendour of bobs new tent, taking his collection to enough to fill a small cul-de-sac. after pitching we headed straight for the beach and had a fantastic hour of bodyboarding, followed by a doombar, then some tribute at the pub and then a stroll back to the site to get the barbie lit...with the now arrived herbert bringing up the rear. pretty soon benny turned up, guided to the pitch by the 30ft flames that result when you try to cook duck on a bbq. so now it was only dyke and kristy on the road. problem was they didn't know which road. and despite the fact only 3 roads were needed on the entire journey they managed to end up in the wrong county, heading in the wrong direction, on the wrong road. all was well in the end though, and they managed to do it in 6 hours so shouldn't laugh. after a bit too much whiskey we awoke to wind and rain but were determined to get some sea action in, i had my new flippers, which quickly became a flipper (i didn't like them anyway), and we spent the best part of an hour being pounded and dragged across the beach. what followed in the afternoon is difficult to recall but certainly involved bayview sunset, bayview sunset and a bit more bayview sunset, followed by tribute. i was shamed to bed in the end after falling over my deck chair thats for sure. we arose sunday to some much welcome sunshine and a trip to trebarwith strand where we found a great little beach with some great waves, if a little crowded. dyke caught an immense wave and looked pro, benny did a 360 and looked like benny, bob did a tumble dryer and i paddled a bit. it was choppy though. and what can you do with one fin?



catchphrases: "he always comes back", "i wonder if theres any edible vegetables in that hedgerow"