Back to the Beach

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We took advantage of another beautifully warm and sunny weekend and a visiting Swedish houseguest (no, we didn't actually take advantage of the houseguest, we just took advantage of her being here to get out of the house and go somewhere) to head for the beach again yesterday. (Who are you Mother Nature and what have you done with January? Nevermind, whoever you are please don't go anywhere!)
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This time we headed for Shefayim Beach, a bit further up the coast. Unlike Tel Aviv's built up coastline full of hotels, beachside cafes and bars and hawkers selling everything from ice creams to kites, Shefayim is utterly undeveloped and because of a relatively difficult access also a bit less crowded. It's also got tidepools to explore, shells (Maya decided they were radishes of all things and spent a great deal of time planting and watering a number of them. They must have planted radishes in school at some point because I don't buy them often enough for her to even know what one is, let alone how to grow it.) and apparently decent fishing. These three folks were fishing with poles but there was another man right behind them fishing with a net, and doing fairly well too judging by the number of fish flopping around in his basket.
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Two magnificent weekends in a row, our luck is bound to run out soon. In the meantime though we're enjoying every glorious minute.
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