Ice Skating at the Beach

Last weekend we went for a drive down to Sola beach. It is only about a 15-20 minute scary (see previous post) drive away from home. It is actually quite a pretty beach - certainly nothing like the Perth beaches or the beaches down the surf coast of Vicco, but lovely all the same. Apparently the only beaches in Norway are actually in this region and there are some even more beautiful beaches along the coast a bit further.


Anyway it was a pretty cold day (around a top of negative 5 degrees) so we were not surprised to see some ice on the ground around the beach. I was not expecting to see however a group of about 20 people ice skating on the frozen water/marshy area on the shore side of the sand dunes. This freaked me out a little bit and the large and thick icy sections on the sand from where the waves washed up was also a bit bizzarre. I also thought I might have been in Esperence WA where the sand was white as white can be, but no, it was just the snow which was covering the sand from where it had snowed around a week ago.

Cooba had fun and it was quite funny to see him running along the beach and trying to stop before a little stream and skidding all over the ice - very cartoon like. But he enjoyed it.

Anyway, here are some more happy snaps from the beach. If you click on the one with the frozen marshy section you can see the ice skaters playing ice hockey at the beach!


Ha det bra.





























JIr