Lent Day 32: Dune friends

 

Eva found an abandoned boogie board in the bushes along the beach.

We dragged our boards, plus the adopted one, to the high sand dunes.

As the children’s courage grew so did the heights from which they threw themselves,

Careering down the dune, faces mixed with panic and glee.

The fun got too much for the two boys on the beach who came sniffing around furtively, like dogs at a park, ready to zoom at any given moment.

We offered them our boards but at first they pretended that they had just come to roll down the dune.

Their pretense didn’t last long as the first boy gingerly accepted the leash of a board but then shot up the top of the dune like a rodeo cowboy.

Once the ice had broken, names swapped, school rugby teams and positions discussed – mainly wings and fly halves – the friendship was sealed and we spent the rest of the morning racing down the dunes together.

I wish adult friendships were this easy.