Here are my answers to this week’s SYW from pensitivity101
1. Can you swim?
I learned to swim when I was seven years old. My BFF and I used to catch a train to the Kalk Bay Pool twice weekly. It was just three stations away. We would buy a single ticket then use the change to buy an ice lolly and then walk home afterwards. Those were the days! We both loved swimming and were allowed to go to the beach on our own and swim without adult supervision!
2. If so, do you prefer a pool, river or the sea? If not, will you paddle or dip your toes?
I used to love swimming in the sea. Even the pool I learned to swim in was a seawater pool. A freshwater pool was a novelty as very few homes where I resided had pools. Swimming in the country club pool was a real treat. I have swum in dams, lakes and rivers too. I swam regularly until quite recently. Now I usually only swim in pools.
3. Did you have outings to the beach as a child?
I grew up on a beach. It wasn’t an outing it was a lifestyle. I still live near a beach but not the one I grew up on. The house I spent my teenage years in is circled in blue.
4. Do you like cotton candy (candyfloss)?
It was a great treat as a kid as we could it at the beach kiosk.
Gratitude:
The best part about memories is making them.
(I don’t know who said that or where I read it, but it’s very true)
My happiest childhood memories were made on Fish Hoek beach. What a privilege to have been able to raise my children and grandchildren there too.
Adventuring into Retirement 
Lovely post Helen. Thanks for joining in. You were close to the beach, and what a view!!
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The view was amazing, Di.
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I love that quote about making memories, I envy you having grown up on or near a beach, and getting to spend so much time there as a child. X
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It was a great childhood, Carol Anne.
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An enjoyable post about happy times. Once we were ‘waterproof’, we were able to walk down to our community swimming pool to spend a morning or afternoon there unsupervised – yet I have always kept a close watch on my children an grandchildren 🙂 🙂
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We do tend to be more overprotective these days, Anne. My grandchildren were nervous about catching a train on their own when they 16 years old!
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This takes me back! We lived in the southern suburbs and it took a bus trip to Claremont then by train to Fish Hoek to get there so it was a special treat to spend the day on that beach
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No other beach to beat it back in the day, Don.
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