Today is a work day, though many people are of course taking leave between Christmas and New Year's. Not yours truly, since I have way too much to do in way too little time. However NSW Transport bestowed upon us a holiday period timetable that would see me chewing up half the day just getting to and from the office had I gone on up to Sydney. Accordingly I opted to work from home. (Where I have access to decent computing equipment anyway, specifically in the form of a home built machine that wipes the floor with the gutless, cookie cutter boxes that we're supplied with at the office. 4GB? Yeah, I'll happily run with my 32 thanks. And my SSD system partition. And my 4TB+ of onboard storage...) In a nutshell, when I really get going I can be vastly more productive at home than at the office anyway. The main downside is of course that it's summer, and we have no air conditioning at home whereas the office does. Summer has yet to do its worst, though when I got in the car to go to the post office at lunch time the thermometer in the car did read 31.

But more to the point, working from home also afforded me the chance for some more sun and surf skin therapy as discussed in yesterday's shot.

It was overcast at dawn, and to be honest I think that some of the earlier shots from today were artistically better, showing some sea mist over the shore when looking north to Austinmer. However it looked misleadingly wintery and I know that at least one of my northern hemisphere visitors prefers the occasional reminder that it's summer, somewhere. A nice, warm sunrise it is, then.

And the title? It's an allusion to what Gene Cernan called out to CapCom Charlie Duke back in Houston as he (Cernan) co-piloted the lunar module on the Apollo 10 mission, the dry run for Apollo 11. The exclamation (in the original, "We is DOWN among 'em") came from the fact that he was hurtling over the lunar surface, boulders and mountains and craters seemingly flying at and past him.

In my case I was "in among" the surf again, very conscious of the fact that I had seconds to line up and grab this shot, then back out at a great rate of knots before that wave coming in on the right indulged me with a scalp to toes sea salt treatment that I didn't really need.