The quiet walks along the beach are a time to take in the beauty as the sun shines across the ocean blue. A sea turtle may sidestep in front of you, the starfish lies ahead buried in the sand, and the pelicans dive in for their breakfast. It is at these times you reflect on the beauty that surrounds you. 
However, nothing is more beautiful when you watch two women over the age of eighty frolic in the water. It’s tempting to take their picture as their youthful spirits and laughter come alive as they play in the waves.
They let the ocean throw them about and all you see is the glimpse of two beautiful swim caps adorned with plastic flowers bobbing in the water. It is the colorful flowers on their head that emphasize the zest of their youthful spirit. It is at these times and moments that growing old doesn’t look so bad.
These bathing beauties are a pleasant reminder that a girl regardless of her age will always have fun in the sun. I just hope I am as spry as those two bathing beauties!
Will you be a bathing beauty at the age of eighty?
I’d like to think that I’ll still be bathing. The beauty part is debatable.
I think you will always be beautiful! It shines through in your writing!
Thanks, Belle
You are welcome, Mrs. Furstenburg
You painted a beautiful picture… I sure hope that I’ll be a “bathing beauty” when I’m that age…I can see hubby’s grandma in my mind swimming her laps with the flower cap on!!!
I love those caps! They always bring a smile to my face! I will have to get one when I remove to the retirement village in Boca
Chuckles… I can pictures Grandma in that cap
It’s the perfect cap! I will accessorize mine according to swim suit!
that is one of my dream.. when im get eighty… fresh, healthy and keep doing bathing beauty
It’s a great dream to look forward too! I want lots of grand kids too!
I am amazed at the heels these girls are wearing. I couldn’t do that in my twenties. And on the sand? Fer-get-a-bout-it!
LOL! I know tell me about it! I love vintage photos! They always tell a great story
Answer to the last question:
Yes!
^^
I like your answer!
I really, really hope so. It’s our dream to retire somewhere warm, and our hope is that our kids will be successful enough in their own lives to come along with us. I would love to be eighty-plus and wading out into the surf in my flowered swim cap, towing along a flotilla of great-grand-babies in PFD’s
Safety first! I love it! Wouldn’t it be wonderful to retire somewhere warm
The beach is my favorite place on earth. So yes, you will find me on the beach as I live into my 80’s, beauty or no!
I think with those foobies you will be a beauty well up to your 100th birthday!
I think you know my answer to this one
I am the ultimate beach bum, and if I am alive at 80, I will still be worshiping the sun. I just hope that my friends make sure I am wearing a one piece suit… PLEASE, PLEASE don’t let me think I can get away with a bikini… PROMISE????? please?????????
Nop! I won’t promise that! I’m buying you a bling bikini for your eightieth birthday with matching swim cap
It may be a corpse or ashes what gets thrown in the leau, but of course!
Shhh! Don’t say such things! I see you with polka dots!
Polka dots! With a little skirt and titanium lined cups?
It would be perfect!
Ayeee!
Now that’s the spirit!
Yeah that sounds like something that would make you smile when you watch it! When I went to a Greek festival over the summer there was this elderly, petite lady wearing a dress who was dancing around the whole platform having the time of her life while waiting for the performers to begin their dances. I got a few pictures of her and her face is just lit up with joy and I was smiling along with her. She was just floating around by herself and spinning and twirling her dress.
It’s a beautiful image! And I hope when I reach that age I’m still dancing the night away!
Granny Addie a bathing beauty? Totally. Coolest, even.
I think you be very cool! I suspect you will be rocking a pair of aviators!
Let’s hope i live THAT long
LOL! Of course you will live that long! I can see it in my crystal ball
Thank you so much for sharing this moment, so that we too could benefit from the sweetness of it!
If I have my way, I absolutely will be a bathing beauty of 80. ♥
Thank you! I see you having lots of flowers on your cap
Personally I vote you cold-place ladies retire here to the NC coast. Think of the trouble we could get into! By our 80s we will be completely out of control. Bathing, heck yes, with or without…. uh, swim caps.
Woohoo! Now you are just getting wild! I’ll bring the tequila
I am planning to lose my filter when I am 80 and just live BALLS to the WALLS! I will rock that bathing suit and cap:)
Now I have ear worm! Balls to the Walls! That is the ticket!