Male Speaker: Australia without a beach. It’s hard to imagine that.
Female Speaker: It’s when you look out at the ocean, there’s nothing. The expanse is huge. It gives you space, and just makes you feel relaxed.
Female Speaker: It relaxes me, brings me back to my childhood memories, and it’s a beautiful place.
Female Speaker: Well, today me and my uncle and my brother came to the beach. Do you like the beach, Tommy?
Male Speaker: Yeah. Yeah!
Female Speaker: Okay. I think he likes the beach.
Female Speaker: It’s mesmerising, isn’t it, the ocean.
Male Speaker: It’s very relaxing, It’s …
Male Speaker: It’s the sound as well that makes it very relaxing.
Female Speaker: I like the beach because there’s lots of sand that you can roll around in, and the water’s good and nice and refreshing.
Male Speaker: I like the smell. I like the sound.
Male Speaker: The beach is my life. I can’t wait for summer to come so I can get out here and spend time here. It’s where I feel I need to be.
Female Speaker: In a world with no beach, what would you do? I’d look at my clothes every day and think, “Why am I wearing these?”
Female Speaker: When I jump in the ocean I feel alive. I feel like I’m a kid again.
Female Speaker: With the little kids jumper on.
Female Speaker: When I jump in the ocean, I feel like I just started a new world, and I’m ready to be free, and just do all these sorts of things that I can’t do on the land, and …
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