Big Empty Beach and a Big Wide Sky

I never can predict how busy Seven Mile is going to be. Last night for example it was a lovely evening, bit of wind, but nothing too outrageous. It wasn’t raining and it had been a warm day. There was even a bit of surf. And yet apart from a guy doing yoga who left not long after I got there, the only other people on the whole beach were a family about one kilometre to the south of me. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love it when it works out like that and I get the whole place to myself, particularly when the sunset turns out the way it did last night, but still, it’s just strange. Anyway, on with the show …