Bellevue Beach

We have been enjoying the steamy weather this summer with lots of trips in the great outdoors. These are a few pictures from our trip to Bellevue Beach in Klampenborg (about an hour from home by bus and train). This beach has long been a very popular spot for catching rays and maybe a boyfriend! Known as the "Flypaper" this artificial beach is really pretty nice with changing huts, showers, and the ever important ice cream stand. Apparently the idea for building the beach actually came from a small ice cream company. They agreed to back the project as long as they had exclusive rights on ice cream sales!

It's actually a really neat beach because you can see the big ships as well as some old (or at least they look old) tall ships out in the sea. I suppse the big cargo ships are mostly heading to or from Copenhagen as it does seem to be a fairly large port city. We didn't see any cruise ships, but apparently they are quite frequent as well since Copenhagen was just voted most popular port city for Europe--wow!

Ruby really loved playing in the sand and wasn't even fazed when Jared buried her in sand--she seemed to think that was pretty fun. I thought this picture was cute with her little toes sticking out. We also got bucket loads of water for her which she enjoyed filling with sand and then pouring the wet glop out all over the place. Needless to say, we were VERY happy that they had a shower because she was an absolute mess covered in sand from head to toe.

One thing I was a bit worried about going to the beach here is the nudity. I was happy to see that really there was very little nudity where we were at (apparently there is a nudist area). The main difference is that women often seem to just wear their underwear to sunbath instead of a swimming suit--strange, but at least they're covered up!

As we discovered in Michigan, Ru is quite the water baby and loved to walk in the surf. I let Daddy take the lead in that arena because I personally get a bit grossed out by all the seaweed, etc. on the shoreline. Once we got out into the water, it was quite nice though. It's been one of the warmest summers in a LONG time, so the water has gotten quite a bit warmer than usual. This has caused some problems though with lots more jelly fish than normal as well as a huge population explosion of algae. Apparently having too much exposure to the algae is not good for your health so I think some of the beaches have even been closed. This one, thankfully, was clear and clean--not even any jelly fish!