I had lived in Australia for almost 6 years between my highschool days... when I firstly arrived in Australia I was pretty exciting about how my life is gonna be from there on.. new environment.. new culture.. different lifestyles.. especially the communication which was very bad of my English skills. However, so far so good, I finally got my certificates and I learns how to lived in different places, different culture and different lifestyle by my own. but I'm still a little concious about the different of Human Habits I might say...
I was very surprised when I went to Bondi Beach, Sydney for the first time. Thousands and thousands of people lied down on the sand along the beach, confronted with burning sunlight and very hot temperature in a very sunshine day. People seem to be loved it though, and lied down for hours. It's so strange habit for Asians as if any head-cutting circumstance they will avoid the sunlight.
So I tried, lied down on the sand for hours then 2 days after I found that my skin was peeling like a sneak!!. So what should be the passion of this habit? because it's such a tortured moment while we got a dried skin waiting to peel off.. it's very hurt though..eieie.. and poeple loved to do that though.. people from the west e.g. Eupore, America, Australia. Just wondering why? why?? and why??
Reply to this Hello Worldstepper 😊
I think some good sun protection cream would have prevented u from getting burnt and your skin pealing off.
I dont sunbath either. I used to because it is relaxing and turns one a nice shade of brown, but it is so bad for the skin that I stopped.
Mell
Reply to this it's mad. as mad as smoking. as mad as self mutilation. the results are inevitably the same.
of course, it does look pretty when you're wearing a short skirt....
priorities are so confounding, no?
Reply to this Sunbathing is awesome! It has many, many benefits, and the only drawback (sunburn) can be easily prevented by using sunscreen.
1) It gives one a nice suntan, which makes one look good for months.
2) Its healthy. The sun cleanses the skin, and generates vitamin D.
3) Its relaxing. What better way to melt off the stress of the week than to sit in the warm sun for an hour or two?
Maybe I
do enjoy the sun too much, but where I live its below freezing outside eight months of the year, and I appreciate all the sun I can get.
Reply to this Hi,
Please be very careful if you do it, better not to at all. I'm from Oz and sun baking is a big thing here but the health dramas can be very huge, even death. We suffer from the highest level of sun cancer and melanoma in the world. I've been lucky so far but my wife, mother and family in law have had numerous operations including cancer treatment. You can get sun cancer from only one case of sunburn not immediatly but many decades latter. Not trying to scare anyone but this is no exaggeration just do a web search. Sure it looks great on young fit healthy bodies but the long term effects are very ugly.
Reply to this I agree with Austravel. I'm from NZ and the sun is a killer here too.
Canadian Viking, if you ever visit down here you might want to reduce your hour or two in the sun to ten minutes. Even with sunscreen.
As for the health benefits, 5 minutes 3 to 4 times a week is ample for vitamin D production.
It does feel nice, I'll admit that freely. But summer down under is a BAD time to sunbathe.
Oh, I do miss the nice soft northern european sunlight. Here, and in Australia, you can literally feel your skin burning within 15 minutes in summer. It stings like little needles and you just know that can't be good.
Reply to this yeah i agree. summer in Australia is so extreme 😊 you will be just like barbecue yourselves to sunbathe during that time. anyway, thanks for every sharing ides & happy new year to everyone.
Reply to this Sunbathing is the best thing ever. I just love the feel of the sun on your skin and then you cool off with a dip in the water. The best thing is getting in at the end of a long day sunbathing and checking it out your tan line!
Reply to this 
