Cape Otway Diary - Day 7

Finally a super-sunny-hot-beachy kind of day. This afternoon we made the drive into Apollo Bay and lugged a very excited small boy, bags of beach gear, buckets and spades, towels, suncream etc down to the sand for a 'lazy' beach afternoon. Except...not so lazy. Forest was seriously non-stop for the entire afternoon. He looked so cute in his UV beach gear (we have to be very careful with this Aussie sun).

I was really pleased that Forest's water confidence was - well - perhaps a little too confident! He rushed out daringly into the ocean surf and launched himself repeatedly under the waves. Sometimes kneeling on all fours to feel the waves crash over his head.

I was, of course, always arms length away as he is still a very little person. So this meant that I spent hours running around after him on that beach. I was rather envious of one toddler mother who sat reading whilst her son was playing happily with his bucket and spade. Forest's bucket and spade sat redundantly - the water was where it was at for that little beetle. And despite my nerves being tested, I am happy to have a little water baby - his mama loves the water too, so I think we'll have lots of fun in the years to come.