A couple of weekends ago we went to the beach where we camped at Christmas time for an afternoon of swimming and a campfire barbeque. We call the beach Baptism Beach as this is where the eldest son, Jacob, of our good friends, Mark and Gretchen Bullock was baptised during the early part of the field service.
The beach barbecue plus campfire cookout idea was Tammy's and initially was going to be just us and the Bullocks in one Landrover, and then it began to snowball and ended up three Landrovers and 27 people. Tammy took all this in her stride and expertly delegated duties and responsibilities.
As we arrived the thunder clouds rolled in but after only a few drops the storms passed by us. Tammy had already advised the wet weather plan determining there were two types of rain - 'just give up rain' because it is too torrential to do anything and God clearly does not want you to go to the beach or 'just get on with it rain' also called "English rain" - at some point it will clear, just go swimming, you are already wet.
We ended up with a really great mix of families and singles all willing to pitch in for what turned out to be an exceptional afternoon. The pictures are a fantastic record of a memorable afternoon.
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| Camp |
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| Gretchen, Tracy and Mark - chillin' |
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| Mark and Harry |
And I had a bit of fun photo bombing!
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| Davi and Ans.......and the photo bomber. |
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| Nikki and Curtis.....and the bomber again. |
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| Nikki, Tam and Curtis....and of course the bomber. |
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| Rob, Tam and Leanne |
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| Here he comes again |
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| The photo bomber |
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| Harry |
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| Matthew's head growing out of the sand. |
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| Matthew |
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| Leanne and Emma |
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| Nick, Lizzy and Rob |
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| Harry with war face on |
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| Mick barbequing |
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| And of course you can sit on top of a Landrover to eat dinner. |
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| Davi |
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| Super principal - Nikki |
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| Our great friends, Mark and Gretchen |
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| Nikki |
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| Nikki and Ans |
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| Our great Brit friend, Lizzy |
The sunset was just amazing. Whichever way you looked, it was different and yet awesome. We took dozens of photos and I still can't choose a favourite. It was truly a great demonstration of the splendour of God's creation.
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