In many respects we (the HK family) have been pretty woeful during the time of Covid-19. In so many ways it represents an opportunity for closeness, rediscovering common interests and ties. Somehow it seemed to have the opposite effect. With the exception of eating together daily (itself a wonderful thing, and of course such an opportunity to fight and shout at each other ;-) we've been living separate lives together - people off in their own little worlds ... obsessions, anesthetics of one sort or another (Fifa, Netflix, reading) ...vices and devices.
This started to bug me - and given we are far from through this pandemic (has it even really started yet?) - I thought there would be time to remedy this mental and emotional diaspora. But what to do? How can a collective event adequately fulfill individual interests? Somehow, Big Wave Bay (generally a misnomer, specifically so today judging from the surf report) or Shek O seemed to be the best option: the boys could skim, Ange could read in the sun, and I could go for a long swim - and in between we would be hanging out together. The challenge however was wounding heat from about 9.30 on, and a public holiday which promised beach numbers greater even than those in supposedly social distancing places like Florida (which got so zoo despite the Covid-19 spike, that they have now been closed for the 4th of July holidays) and the, frankly lunatic,
South coast of England. The solution for us was convincing the insanely-late-sleeping-teenagers to get up at 5.30am. Blow me down they did!
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| It was overcast to begin with - but still brutally hot and humid - Ev heading downrange - the Western side of the beach has a slope and step that the boys like - witness the thundering surf. I love the old beach dai-pai-dong at the end of the beach - looking a bit ghostly and disheveled at this time of day. |
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| The sun soon arrived and they were hard at it. |
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| The thing that I do like about skimming is the massive workout it is, the sudden desire to spend a chunk of the morning doing short sprints. |
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| A happy Pickle as the sun and the heat starting winding up. We headed home at 8, which makes me laugh. |
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Stop for a stock-up at the P&S on the way home. Ev back on his device. Aiden headed in to help Ange.
Happy holiday car. |
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