This is an Island

いつも窓から見えているのに、行ったことがなかった。
そう、ここは島だから、海が近い！
港じゃなくて砂浜の海岸に行きたい！
水漏れ修理でコーキング乾燥待ちの間、キッチンも使えないし、ついでに外食しよう！

と、思い立ち、旦那を無理やり運転させて海へ向かった。
パークウェイを東へ15分、そこはながーい海岸公園。
家族連れやらカップルが、サイクリングしたりローラーブレードしたり、はたまたイチャイチャしていたり。 ケーブルで牽引してやるウェイクボード（or水上スキー）場もあって、なかなか面白そうだ。
砂浜のビーチに出ると、久しぶりに嗅ぐ潮の香り。木陰のベンチでぼおーっと夕暮れを過ごす。
これこれ、これがしたかった！ 耳をすますと波の音が、、、ぶううううんと。。。？
そう、沖に何百隻も待機している船、船、船。そのエンジン音がずうっと聞こえているのだ。
ううううん、やっぱりちょっと違うぞ。ここで泳ぐのはちょっと勇気がいりそうだ。

日がくれてお腹もすいてきたので、シーフードの有名店が勢ぞろいしている界隈で夕食♪
観光客も多いのだろう、メニューも日本語併記してある。たらふく食べても大した金額にならないのが嬉しい。マーケットで見る限り、食材は安いもんなぁー。

たまには、こういう日があってもいいよね。


I've never been there although I always see from our window.
Yes, this is an island and the seaside is right over there. I want to go to the sand beach, not the concrete harbor! As we cannot use the kitchen while waiting for the caulking to dry up because it was leaky, it's good idea to eat out on this occasion!
This occurred to me and persuaded my husband to drive toward the seaside. Fifteen-minute eastward drive along the park way reaches the long coast park. Families and couples are riding bikes or rollerblading, or another ones are chatting intimately. There is a cable-towed wakeboarding lake which seems quite fun.
As we went out the beach, I smelled salty scent which I haven't done for a long time. Sitting on a bench under the tree, we slobbed about the nightfall. I really wanted to do this! And when I open my ears, the sound of... wa...ve...boom?　Yes, there were hundreds of ships offshore waiting for their shipping. The engine noise were coming from them all the time. Hmmmm, something different. It might need a little nerve to swim here.
After the sunset, we were getting hungry. So, we went to have a dinner at the area where famous seafood restaurants gather. It seems many tourists come, the menu was written also in Japanese along with English. It was happy to find that big enough meal didn't cost too much.
We deserve such occasion once in a while, leh?