I went to Maroubra Beach yesterday. Not for any reason in particular, just to go somewhere I hadn’t been before.  A mini escape without leaving Sydney at all.  It’s a nice place, not a Bra Boy in sight.  Families, and loads of people out for Mother’s Day.  People swimming as well, strange since the weather is quite cold now, I imagine the water would have been very chilly.

I took my camera, wandered around, up the coastal path, down to the sandy beach where the waves were dotted with surfers on their boards.  Here are a few shots.  The photos weren’t great, so it was a prime opportunity to do some more playing with Photoshop, a program that I am beginning to very much doubt my ability to live without.

I wonder where the owners of the bikes are?  I think there is an air of mystery about this photo.  Maybe a pair of young emo lovers jumped off the cliff… or perhaps a pair of eco lovers have just gone for a stroll.  I was thinking it might have been a couple of hooligan youths, but then I noticed that one of the bikes is a boy bike and one is a girl bike, so there is an air of romance about it.

Mother and son… not talking it seems.

The ladies loos.  An important place.

Some kids were having a birthday party and this had been drawn on the coastal path.

Flowers someone had tied in memory for a mum who must have loved sitting on this seat looking out along the coast from Maroubra all the way to Bondi and Bronte.