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Our second Jersey group adventure was a Sunday trip to the beach. The beach on the west coast of Jersey is beautiful - one could almost forget you were only 100 miles south of England. No wonder this place was the number one British beach destination before EasyJet made Barcelona as accessible as it is today.

When we arrived, you could fit a football field between the beginning of the sand and where the waves were lapping the shore. A lot of sand. Just a couple of hours later, the tide had risen and waves were crashing against the boardwalk with not so much as a grain of sand to be seen. Very impressive.

Before the tide swallowed the beach, we had a chance to get wet. Ian stayed dry on the rocks with his IPod but Claire and David ventured out into the surf even though they didn't have any appropriate clothing with them. Emma went whole hog and rented a boogy board from the local surf shop. I was surprised to see how many surfers there were in Jersey! And Jan and I took turns splashing about with Emily.

We had an amazing lunch at a beach-side restaurant before it was time to bid farewell to Ian and Clarie. Real life was waiting for them on the mainland. Jan and I still had another day of holidays to enjoy so we set off down the shore with David and Emma on a leisurely sunset stroll... until we saw our bus approaching in the distance and were forced to make a mad dash to catch our ride back to town.

We all caught a little too much sun.

Instead of leaving you with an unrelated yet entertaining video snippet as I have promised, here is a video of Emily on the beach. Nice.