the invasion begins

The invasion of jellyfish is slow and unsuspecting. It's sort of like that scene from Jaws. The kids are all squeeling and playing in the water, the adults are on the shore, the danger lurks in the open water, slowly creeping up on it's victims... then "argh" screams a child, then they all scream "argh" in unison. Then just like that the sea has been emptied and everyone stands on the shore pointing and talking in every language you can imagine about the "meduse" as they are called in France. Literally, the past few days have been drinched in the constant stream of jellyfish washing ashore. It sort of makes swimming a challenge and a risk, but we've done it in limited amounts anyway. What occurs is, the jellyfish seem to get blown in to the shores from their leisure life of skimming the waters and just being generally absent minded creatures. Now, I can call them absent minded because literally, I don't think they have a mind, and also, any creature that mobilizes en masse, only to plummit onto a shoreline resulting in immediate death couldn't be that smart... right?
So, the days have been leisurely. We spend lots of time laying by the sea, soaking up the sun, actually I try to fend the sun off with nivea sunscreen, and then we float in the water until we are thrown back onto the shoreline. It seems we have more in common with the jellyfish than we might care to admit...
Two days ago we walked7.5 kilometers to a beautiful beach. The walk was fantastic and it carried us along the sea side the entire time. We saw lots of mansions fancy yachts, and oh yes, at the beach we saw plenty of anatomy, and I don't mean of the animal kind. It turns out the beach we walked to is well known for being a nude beach. Oops:)
So, we are now preparing for a walk into town for an hour or so, and then back to our house . We are overly excited about our friends josh and Chrisinda that will be joining us for a few days in Capri. We can hardly wait!
We leave St. Tropez on the 13th, will be in Florence, Italy for a few days and then onto the rocky cliffs and the blue waters of Capri. Until then...