A day at the beach

Swimming's banned, and people don't take off their clothes the way they do here, but they still have lots of fun.

I spent a pleasant few hours in the beach resort of Parangtritis, 27km south of Jogja, in Central Java. There's dark, volcanic sand, and there's quite a big surf. In Australia it probably wouldn't be considered a particularly dangerous beach, but in Australia most people can swim.

There are other ways of having fun at the beach though, like riding around on horse carts, being covered by cool wet sand, or lunching on excellent seafood dishes for a dollar or so.









Or you could take selfies with your extra long selfie stick.