On the Beach, Nepali Style

So, Nepal is a landlocked country. So, we went to the beach anyway - about two hours drive away, up over the rim of the Kathmandu valley, and down the other side, sharing switchbacks with heavily laden tourist buses, with crowds surfing the top of them, the ubiquitous and prolific motorbikes, and various pretty large trucks. The roads were fairly quiet though, because of the Tihar holiday.
We drove our new jeep across a river (well, Harv did, I grimaced and the Littles bounced on their seats, squeaking with excitement). It wasn't quite as impressive as the shot below (neither the jeep, nor the water level), but it was quite an achievement, I thought. Then we got ferried across the next (deeper, faster) river by some friends with a bigger jeep.
We picnicked on sandy sanwishes and homemade cheesey crackers and carrot cake, swam, sunbathed, collected a few beautiful stones - a super-duper day out. And Noah was a very happy boy as he got to spend almost the entire day naked - that's very high on his list of priorities at the moment..... So that's why he's absent from these photos.......