Long Beach!
And what better way to greet the ocean than to start a wave jumping competition! ...and to test the new neoprene shirt!
Yuko and Taryn getting their hair washed...
Jack enjoying the benefits of a slight height advantage!
Now Palmer gets into the action!
...one more time!
The mighty conquerers returned!
Yes, it is risky carrying a large camera into the waves, and yes, it did get splashed... Oops!
A defensive castle was required to be built quickly, so the boys got to work...
But not quickly enough, so the boys began their battle! Taryn wisely declined the invitation. Besides she was preparing to cook dinner: sand, crab shells, and sticks...
Palmer decided to interrupt the chef's meal planning...
...I think "Detta" is a Scandinavian word that means "sand".
"...typical crystals of beta-quartz embedded in a matrix of acidic volcanic rhyolite, gray or white, dull, and translucent, and showing a very simple, stubby habit of two hexagonal bipyramids..."
"Sand, glorious sand! Look at it all!"
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