Friday 28 May 2010

Day 7 - Ryde

The penultimate day was a bit more relaxed as we had another beach day up in Ryde. The beaches here are beautiful and the boys enjoyed watching the boats and hovercrafts as well. Here is me and the boys as we arrive in Ryde.

We found a really nice play park right on the sea front. Below is a picture of the boys taking their day on a cruise.

And Joshua sailing solo.

It was lovely to see both the boys playing together in the sand and filling their buckets up.

Here is little Brandon playing in the sand with Mummy watching on from the sea wall.

The park also had this great little digger which Joshua kind of claimed as his. Whenever any other children went near it he got very jealous.

It wasn't long before both boys were looking out over the sea wall wondering what was the other side. So it was time to climb over and head onto the beautiful sandy beach.

Both the boys were fascinated with the hovercrafts. Later in the day we went over to the hovercraft port and they got to witness up close one turning around on the beach.


As you can see there was acres of sand beyond the sea wall for the boys to run around and play in, fortunately the tide was out and so there was only little pools to run in and out of.
As it was a scorching day we whipped the shoes off and went for a paddle on some of the shallows.

Joshua enjoyed running as fast as he could and getting as wet as he could in the process.

I also taught Joshua how to find cockle shells and we managed to crack a few open to show him a live cockle living inside.


The little black thing you can see in the distance is a military hovercraft which was out there practicing some drills.

Earlier in the holiday blog you might remember I spoke about Joshua's very impressive driving skills on the bumper cars. Well this was exceeded yet again as he took to the wheel in this go-kart!!! I did not think they would let him drive it and was dubious about letting him go on it without any harness or strap, but he did a great job.


Tomorrows blog is the final day of our holiday and includes a return trip to Robinhill along with some nice pictures from the ferry ride back.

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