This is an oil painting from 2006.  I did it from a photo I took in 2004 on North Stradbroke (Straddie) Island, New South Wales, not too far off the coast from Brisbane, Australia.  I fondly remember this day at the beach with wife and youngest son who was on a study program in Australia at the time.

If you click on to enlarge, you can see people frolicking in the surf!