Today I simply want to draw your attention to a great blog of one of my “online friends” – a blog I came across a little while ago which is full of inspiration, wonderful craft ideas, great pictures and other nice stories and information about everything “coast and beach”. It is called “Completely Coastal” and will be well worth your time.

Thanks to Maya, who loves the beach and who is sharing her passion with all of us who are drawn to the vastness and beauty of the coast, sandy beaches and coastal living.

I am sure you will enjoy Completely Coastal!

This is mainly for all of you who have websites or blogs, too – I want to “give back” to loyal visitors of my website by giving you the option to have dofollow links pointing back to your websites, so I have just installed the DoFollow attribute, KeywordLuv, CommentLuv and Top Commentator Widget to this site.

I know I haven’t that many blog posts (yet), but I still approve meaningful comments of fellow beach lovers (you?) and hope that some of you will benefit from the new features I have installed!

Happy Commenting!

You all might have noticed by now that I live in Australia. Now, once a year Australia is celebrating “Australia Day”, and this happened to be today! True to Aussie culture, most Aussies who live close to the ocean will spend the day in one of the parks by the beach or on the beach, having a “real Aussie BBQ” with friends and family.

Here in Perth people will go to either the beach or to the so-called “foreshore” along the Swan River. There are some absolutely stunning spots along the river to sit and enjoy a day out.

This is possible because -of course – in January we are in the middle of summer here (“Down Under” – everything is the other way around…), and usually January is one of the hotter months, too. So today it was 34 degrees and sunshine all the way. Glorious day! We happened to go out to the beach with a couple of friends, close to a sailing club, and the colors of the ocean combined with the sails of the sailing boats were just stunning! Unfortunately you can’t really see the gorgeous colors like they were in real life on the photos I took.

I made a point of collecting some nice seashells, too, of course, to use someday in a craft project. Never miss out on collecting seashells when you are at the beach – you never know when they will come in handy.

At night time we went to see the fireworks – of course Perth has to have some fireworks to celebrate the day! This part of the day we spent at the banks of the Swan River, the atmosphere was just wonderful. I tried to take a picture of the city skyline lit up at dusk, but I think my hand wasn’t too steady. The black and white spots on the water are actually black swans and white pelicans, would you believe it!!! It was amazing.

I wish all of you a very Happy New Year 2010 with lots of beach trips and beach fun! It has been a great year, hopefully the next one will be as good if not better! Make sure you get to the beach as often as you can, it is such a cleansing and refreshing experience, and do collect your seashells for some artwork while you are there!