The picture says it all...

Our holiday in Golden Bay was just perfect. We spent the week on the beach. Ligar Bay (just 50m from our lovely little holiday bach - 'the little house' as Molly christened it) is just perfect for kids - and big kids - safe and shallow even at high tide, and at low tide the sea leaves lagoons and rock pools that are warm as bathwater. Just blissful.

We borrowed kayaks from the owner of the bach and the girls had as much fun as we did in them. Even refusing on one occasion to get out of it, so they sat in it on the beach until we relented and continued to push them up and down the bay - great exercise, running in thigh high water, I was knackered! - like little lady mucks, shouting 'faster, faster'.

It was such a great idea to go with friends (although I'll admit to being anxious, you never know do you!?), the kids just loved having familiar faces to play with, and they kind of amuse themselves to a certain extent. Don't get the idea that we had a minutes peace though... that would have been too much like a holiday. But we're thinking we're going to make this an annual thing maybe, at least until the kids decide (or we do) that they can't stand another perfect holiday in the sun, on the sand, in paradise, ha ha.