I’m linking this post to Summer Play – Summer Play at the seaside. My play post is inspired by a trip to Bournemouth we made on Sunday. This was my son’s first trip to the beach, can’t believe it’s taken up over 3 and a half years to get him there! Anyway, we arrived mid-morning and luckily for us it was easy to park and the beach wasn’t packed as I’d expected it to be. Mind you it was rather windy and cloudy, which probably explained it.
He was in his element immediately, all that sand to play with, and all that water to jump in! I have to admit that I left the jumping in the sea to Daddy P and him – I paddled but it was nowhere near warm enough for me to get in – I left my madmen to it!
My son loved playing with the seaweed he found, whether it was slimy in the sea or all dried out on the beach.
Then it was time for some serious sandcastle building, moat making and tunnel excavation.
We all had a great time making our big sandcastle. I was put to work making smaller sandcastles to go around the outside of the moat – ramparts no less.
When he was happy with his sandcastle he decided it was time to bury Daddy P in the sand, took me back to my own childhood with my Dad on the very same beach.
We were very kind to Daddy P and only buried his legs – considering the size of him and his size 14 feet – this was task enough for him.
We then went shell hunting, he found a few lovely ones to get his collection started. Then we decided to collect some pebbles (I use that term lightly as some were more small rocks!) and looked at the different colours and shapes – there were loads of different ones to choose from.
It started to get a bit chilly in the afternoon, so we decided to say goodbye to the beach and headed off to Poole to check out the harbour. But we’d all enjoyed some summer play at the seaside, and will be back again soon to have more fun.
I love seashell hunting at the beach. I used to love holding them up to my ear to see if we could hear the ocean!
Same here 🙂
Looks like Monkey had a fab time – hope you are going to make it more of a regular occurrence now 🙂
I hope so, he had such a lovely day, took me back to my childhood. I was so lucky as my Granny lived on the Kent coast so I had lots of beach holidays.
My children love going to the beach. M was a bit uncertain at the start of this year because he didn’t like his feet touching the sand, but he has got over that now. I think the experience is so freeing for them.
Did you look at the yachts in Poole marina? We’ve been on two yachting holidays and I’ve always enjoyed staying there.
I wondered how Monkey would be on the beach, but was fine with that. Yes, we had a good look around Poole Marina and it was an RNLI fundraising day so lots going on to keep him entertained there too.
I think they were very brave in the sea on that windy day, looks like Monkey had great fun
Brave or mad – can’t decide!
Looks like you all had a great time there. I haven’t been to Poole since I was on a school week away at 7. It was great – should go back some time.
It was a lovely day – one of my favourite areas
Looks like you had a wonderful time and the beach looks great!
I love it there, so many memories and nice now to make some with Monkey 🙂
Looks like Daddy is as enthusiastic about the sand castle as Monkey. It’s wonderful when men could be big kids themselves at times! 🙂
Too true, doesn’t happen often enough with this Daddy so it was extra special for Monkey
What a lovely family day at the beach, perfect for making some great childhood memories for Monkey to treasure. It’s nice to see Daddy P having fun as well, thanks for sharing Monkey’s first beach adventures with Country Kids.
It was a lovely day, and you’re right – perfect for memory making 🙂
We visit the sea quite regularly with Ethan but we never make a day of it to build sandcastles, etc. This is on our to do list. I’m glad you had lots of fun even if it did get a little cold.
It was a really lovely, simple day x