Family Fun and more Beach Bliss...

I have more beach pics to share...we LOVE the beautiful beach so we spend a lot of time there. If we are not swimming in the water and jumping the waves, we are playing in and on the sand, or walking for hours along the sand and water. We also go and pray and sing to God at the beach...So my point is, if we can get to a beach we will, so there will be a whole lot of beach pics to share...I hope you don't get sick of photos of the sand, ocean, waves, sun, beach hair, sandy feet and general beach fun because we will have many, many pics of them to share :-)

We decided to go for a walk along the Warrnambool surf side beach and we took the kite with us....

Meet Bluey, The Girls Owl kite...

Up, Up and Away...

The Girls had a heap of fun flying the kite as we walked along the beach.
We walked and walked and decided to walk to the large rock formations at the end of the beach. I think it was Shane who suggested it. I quickly agreed, it didn't look too far. I thought it would only take us about 20 minutes to get there, HAHAHA, Yea right, I was wrong!

Beautiful scenes as we walked...

...and walked...

.....and walked!

Everyone was tired...our leg muscles were burning because we were walking in ankle deep sand the whole way. We had walked for over 1 hour in deep soft sand and everyone wanted to quit. Nooooooo! No way was I going to allow us to quit, we were so close. I went on a rant, Haha, I do that sometimes!....."We don't quit! The Rech Family doesn't quit. We are so close now, lets keep going." So we kept walking for nearly another 1/2 hour and look at the BEAUTY we found... 

Look at the GORGEOUSNESS we found...

 It was like a beautiful little island hidden behind huge cave-like rock formations and sand dunes. Beautiful, clean sand, beautiful rock caves, and then we turned around and we found a beautiful river, WOWSA!

Hopkins River...

The Gorgeous Logans Beach...

Pure Gorgeousness...

Each year when the river meets the ocean, the eels make their way from the river to the ocean. Clever little eels. I wonder how they know to do that!

Some interesting info about the eels...

Interesting info about Point Ritchie...

We spent quite some time at this gorgeous spot, taking in all its beauty. Everyone thought the walk was well worth the effort :-)
It was getting a bit late and we still had a 1 1/2 hour deep sand walk to do, starving children and sore leg muscles, so off we went again for our beautiful walk along the beach.

Elissa walked ahead with me...

Serena walked along with Shane...

We returned to our starting point feeling content and happy with our walk, tired but content and happy we didn't give up, and because we didn't give up we were rewarded with a gorgeous surprise little island. We had a rest in the soft sand, then walked the 1 minute walk home. We had some dinner, had our refreshing showers, got tucked into our cosy bed's, and listened to the waves crashing before we all feel soundly asleep! What a MARVELLOUS night :-)

Last night Shane and I were chatting while sitting on the sand watching the girls play in the sand...A thought came to me regarding the previous night's walk to our surprise island. If we gave up and didn't complete the walk, we would have missed out on the reward at the end. We had to endure...we were in pain, we were tired, it would have been so very easy to give up, however we didn't give up, we kept on going and because we kept on going, we were rewarded.

I think in life we sometimes give up too easily. We may be working hard to accomplish something, we may be on a difficult journey and things gets too hard, so we just give up, not realising that our reward is just around the corner. Don't give up!......Told you I like to rant sometimes, Hehe :-) 

I Hope your all enjoying your weekend with your Loved ones!

Take Care,

Dimi xo