Saturday, April 16. Ridgely was ready for a day off, so we went to the beach. The kids played and played in the sand & water for 2.5 hours. They would have stayed all day and night. Haughton built a pizza store in the sand, and Ridgely continued to sell me food (made out of sand) for much of the time. We also ate raw coconuts that someone sold us on the beach. Yum! Inerestingly, before the 1992 Olympics, this area was an industrial wasteland. Apparently, the industrial zone was demolished and dumped into the sea. Sand was then dredged from the seabed to make a long stretch of beautiful beaches.
From where we were, we could see the Peix, a large fish statue done by Frank Gehry, a Canadian living in Los Angeles. See photo below. We also learned some fun facts about the Mediterranean, e.g.: there are 47 different species of sharks, includung the Great White, living in the Mediterranean; 3 sea turtle species frequent the waters; and the sea covers 965,000 sq miles and has an average depth of almost 5000 feet. Wow.
Every city should have a beach!
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