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The day before our (Tenbellies and I) trip to Las Vegas Thud thought it to be a great idea to go the beach, time for princess OTW to try out her new wet suit and monkey to dip his toes into the Pacific. The Journey to the beach would take us over the Richmond Bridge and through the mountains to Stinson Beach. Coincidentally, Stinson Beach came into its own in the 1906 when refugee's from San Francisco settled after the big earthquake. Now the beach is very popular with people visiting from far and wide to see the views of the pacific (on a good day when the fog is out) and the high hills behind. The beach is popular with Surfers although there are large sightings of Great White Sharks in the Bay with the last attack being in 2002 by a 12 - 15 foot shark the area has become a red Triangle area, with this in mind Monkey dipped his toes and that was about it!! Thud who is a little larger than me jumped in, Good luck there.

Joining us on our day out was Thuds mother and Vinogirl along with the Vinodogs. when we all arrived it seemed a little cold and the fog was very low over the beach, Tenbellies had hugged the car bonnet as in her words it was freezing i thought otherwise stripping down to ones shorts took the vinodogs onto the beach while thud brought Princess OTW along with the bucket and spade, these two English men were about to build a true English sand castle.

The beach now surrounded by moderate sized beach houses was unusual as the the fog covered the beach and yet it was so warm. We set up camp and little OTW got well stuck into the sand and beach activities. Later we took a walk down the beach and this was later found to not have been such a good idea for monkey. Although the view was amazing and the different beach house designs interesting, monkey had not applied the sun block because in his infinite wisdom thought the sun was out and therefore he will not burn. Big mistake, BIG. Monkey got toasted, legs, back, arms, shoulders and face. It was later revealed that the only place other than the shorts area not be toasted was the eyes. Yes i looked like a panda!!

This was going to make our trip to Vegas that much more interesting as we walked through the desert temperatures at the weekend.