Day1 - Beach and BBQ

We walked to the rocks by the left, and the sandstone rocks were slopping and had holes as if to facilitate rock climbing.
This was easy enough for me too! We hung on the rocks for a while, and then came back to join the others.
Are you ready to go the lighthouse?
We had discussed about visiting the Point Arena Lighthouse after the beach. That would be further up north, about hours
drive.
The lighthouse is about 1 mile into the ocean, and a fabulous place.
What? Another long drive on the winding road?
I have never heard CA 1 being referred to with such disdain, and I flinched.
I checked myself, this is their trip, and not ours, so I better keep my mouth shut and go with the flow.
A few were very keen; others were outright not interested to go see a light-house at all, no matter how spectacular.
The sun was out, bright and I must admit, it was tempting to simply laze around.
The lazy lumps won.
Some one came clutching a flat piece of wood, 'how about Cricket?’
The idea got the men and kids up, and soon the game was on.
What’s cricket? How do you play?
Cricket is Indian baseball.
A bloke throws the ball; you hit it hard and run for a run. If the ball is back before your reach the stumps, well then
You are stumped.
It was nice to see the game, everyone played for fun...
Most of the women were under the umbrella, chatting, closing their eyes. This is relaxation indeed. I was busy watching the
game as well as keeping an eye for Rebecca.
Aunty wanted to go for a stroll. So I went along with uncle, and shanthi akka.
went for a while, and Dharma signaled to wait to Rebecca who had followed us.
We collected colored pebbles for Gigi and Rebecca was busy picking her pebbles and conversing rapidly. We came back, and
Jean akka wanted to go for a walk, Dharma wasn’t keen to join us, and so Off I went for another walk.
Soon, it was time to leave.

We reached the campsite, and Dharma went in to pay for the registration, Rebecca was fast asleep, and we were waiting by
the fish-wash at the entrance, listening to abalone divers talking of their day's catch. Interesting talk about
restrictions for smaller than 7 inch abalone, and the like.

I put Rebecca down in Santhosh's tent, since our tent was way off; we were going to hang around the others. We started
with the BBQ preparations. I just realized that I was terribly hungry.
So, I gobbled up some baklavas. Yummy! Hunger makes the sweets even sweeter!
The evening was great. The fire was soon up, with Dharma, Jeba anna tending, Denix joined in to grill. The camp bbq was
actually a small shallow fire-pit with stone around. The grill was a flat rectangular grill bought at the camp store.
Too small to feed the army.
It might have been nice if we had brought our table-top grill too.
So, we took out the marinated meat. Mine was a cosco pack of 3 types of marinate - teriyaki, garlic-herb and Mediterranean.
The others were freshly ground garlic, and marinated chicken. Mine was still frozen in the ice-pack, we sliced smaller
Pieces.
Started with the hotdogs and burger patties..for the kids. I was still hungry, soon the party begun.
I fixed a burger for myself, and went to check on Rebecca. She was awake and crying in the tent.
Aavi ! It hurts!
She pointed to her knee and shin. I could make out nothing, so I picked her and walked. She was crying even louder, so
Dharma got out of grilling and took her. It worked. Grape flavored tiny candy.
Maybe she was exhausted after the whole day in the beach. Maybe she fell, and didn’t realize it..
We sang songs, passed on plates, fixed burgers and hot-dogs, grilled some corn, and it was soon 10pm.
Everyone seemed to enjoy the bbq. Good. Gald the Costco stuff came out pretty well.
Already?
Camp quiet time.
There were more riddles from the kids, jokes and performances, time to call it a day.
Some on remembered the smores. Smores are actually short for some more whatever that is. And with each occasion of smore,
comes the differces in how it is eaten.
Girls - Place Hershey bars on graham crackers, Toast marshmallows, Place toasted marshmallows on Hershey bars to melt
Chocolate, eat as a cookie.

While Boys
Eat Hershey bars, Eat marshmallows, Throw graham crackers at other boys.

Good day.
End of day1.