For the last three nights we have made a habit of going down to the beach around 6pm, just as the heat of the day dissipates, for a swim. The sea is still warm but it is really refreshing soaking away the day and leaving you cool. There are more fish to see than during the rest of the day and each evening we have seen ‘Pete’ the resident stingray swim buy. Tonight we saw pufferfish, Angel fish and a shoal of foot long chub and trumpet fish.

But the real show starts at around six thirty as the sun goes down. The sea changes colour and becomes the most incredible mirror of the sky, it looks like liquid metal with powder pinks, pastel blues, silvers and golds and it just shimmers. The sea is mill pond flat with barely a wave just the gentle ripples over the polished surface. It is mesmerising to watch.

And if that’s not enough each evening a pirate ship sails past… Slowly the sky darkens and the sun goes down and one by one the stars come out, crisp and sparkling in the sky and oh so many! No constellations I recognise it is an alien sky.

At full dark looking west you can see lightening flashing, the most vivid and intense flashes far off in the distance lighting up the sea and for a second turning night to day.

It great watching this from the beach, but it is even better watching it while swimming.