Pondering being on the other side of the world and taking some time out to bob about in an altogether warmer sea pool than normal.

As it turns out other bobbers have bobbed in this same pool before me .

As is so often the case photography cannot quite catch the vivid colours completely accurately.

But my pre prepared colour charts. Random as they may have seemed in a grey and dismal English November, can be used to accurately pick out the colours I will need to recreate the vivid blues and greens of the sea and the gorgeous cappuccino creamy flush as sand and  breaking waves mingle in the liminal space of the shore line.

Now the burning question is to sketch or swim?

An unusual choice for 6 am. Maybe both if I am quick!