Our family holiday down in Durban in the beginning of this year began at the Blue Marlin Hotel, it was a gorgeous place to stay and a fantastic way to start our beach holiday.
Some of the hotel signage that I loved. We spent the entire first day with long walks along the beach and then stopping back at the hotel for food and water and then heading back down to the beach and then coming back, it was so great being walking distance from the ocean, the best place to get some good exercise.
On the beach we were then greeted with the lifeguards safety floater with the backdrop of the ocean.
A touch of humour to this day was the fact that I wore my husbands bright orange swim shorts the entire day, so back in the hotels entrance I snapped a fun photo of me in the mirror, capturing the outfit of the day. I truly enjoyed all the small touches of decor of the hotel and snapped photos of everything at every chance I could get.
We came across an abandoned train station with some fun graffiti sprayed over the walls.
I love this quote stuck to a rock that we came across as well.
Than the thunders
Of many waters,
Mightier
Than the waves
of the sea,
The Lord on high
Is mighty!
-Psalm 93:4"
It is a great reminder to have and having this prevalent scripture with the backdrop being the crashing waves and ocean water is amazing.
My husband enjoyed the view while I captured the waves and photographed beach umbrellas dotting the shoreline
Some more of our hotels beautiful decor, I thought these were pretty awesome! Blue balls hung in some tangled string netting.
This break in a concrete wall made a cool frame for the sea.
Some more waves and salty ocean foam washing up over the rocky beach sand.
I love hunting for shells and bringing home unique rocks and treasures from the ocean, this little beauty still had an inhabitant living inside so I snapped a photo to bring home instead. Its amazing that the ocean is filled with tiny creatures living in shells the size of a nail as well as home to creatures bigger than airplanes, something I find hard to wrap my brain around but isn't that just so incredible?!
All in all, this day was nothing short of perfect, sinking our toes in seasoned, inhaling the salty air and feeling the warm Autumn sun on our skin as we enjoyed quality time together, it was just spectacular. Spending the day walking back and forth between the beach and hotel was time well spent.
I hope the photos of our beach day bring you some joy as not only did they fill me with so much joy taking them but editing them and now writing about them they are filling me with such happiness as I remember this perfect day!
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