No Fun Beach

You know you are in a repressed, strictly controlled, killjoy society when you see signs and hear announcements every few minutes at a reasonably large, not particularly packed public beach on Lamma Island that there is no ballgames, frisbee throwing, kite flying or dogs permitted. So eating and drinking from glass containers is OK, as we witnessed a man having broken glass dug out of his feet by the killjoy attendants who enforce the rules. Presumably casual sex and drug taking are probably OK, unless they are already outlawed under some other law. I am surprised that potentially hazardous or annoying activities like sand castle building and sun-bathing were not banned. Taking of photographs of western children seems to be OK, despite the obvious capacity for illicit activity to result.

So revealed are a few of my pet hates about my newly adopted country and its people and visitors.

I am sure I will write more about same in the coming months.

Notwithstanding the above, Lamma seems like an interesting place and despite my wife's traumatic toilet experience after dinner in a local seafood restaurant, I think we will be back to explore the southern part of the island and the beaches a wee bit further away from the power station!