While walking along the beach south from Broadbeach this morning I noticed a strange sociological phenomenon.
A number of Chinese tourists were on the beach at Kurrawa. It is clear that going to the beach is not a normal part of life in China (or at least for this group), because of what they were doing...
- None of them seemed prepared for the beach, even though it must have been in their itinerary. Rolled up trousers, non-beach shoes being carried etc
- Going to elaborate lengths to video themselves as 'having fun' - running from a wave, pretending to splash the person with the camera and so on
- Some of them seemed fascinated by what the 'Australians' were doing: watching dad dig in the sand with a little kid; watching children frolicking. But NOT looking 25m further down the beach where the Kurrawa SLSC Nippers had their surf skis out and were in full holiday practice!
- And, just little more bizarrely, the Australians being watched by the Chinese seemed to not notice the attention, as if they couldn't see them! It made me think of animals on display in a zoo.
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