Clearwater beach!

My family know how much i hate beach's...

...

...i do.

however... i have grown up, and become more independant....i mean c'mon, I moved to america!

but sand....and fish....and salt water....and heat....and sunburn. WHO WANTS THAT!

but, everyone was going so I sucked it in and went with everyone, i didn't want to miss out...and its been 8 years since i went to clearwater, maybe the beach isn't as bad as i remember!

So getting up at 8am wasn't too bad.... and the 2hour bus journey wasnt too bad, and getting a place on the beach was fine too.
So far so good.
Then everyone went straight into the sea.
OK alyssa, its fine, the water is fine, the shells hurt ur feet a little, but its fine, its fine.

OH MY GOODNESS ME THERE IS FISH EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!EVERYWHERE!!!!!

but everyone was in the sea posing for a photo, and i so wanted to be in the photo, i looked straight ahead and splashed as much as possible to get the fish to stay away from me and ran into the photo.

not so bad

not so bad

photos over, fish everywhere, touching my legs, GET ME OUT!!!!!

so i ran out and virtually hyperventilated and got myself into a quiet state.


Luckily another girl Jo was terrified of jellyfish and didnt want to get in the sea and we persuaded each other to go in.
I did become a tad hysterical as there was literally schools of fish swimming around us. and they were huge too.
But as we got deeper the fish dissapeared. Thats what im telling myself anyway cos i couldnt see them!

I recovered well and we all played girls v boys catch the wilson ball.

it was fine.

i even sunbathed for a grand total of about an hour whilst we were there! Although it did become unbaringly hot so i went back into the sea (with my eyes closed) and stared at all the fit bodied men.

There were a few of them :-)

took my mind of the fish anyway!



Then the massive storm came so we left an hour earlier. we seen the lightning hit the sea - it was incredible....y scary!!!!



I managed like 6 hours on a beach - Mam you know your proud. I will impress you yet!


and i survived the fish :)