the most hectic beach day

Here's a chronology of yesterday at Wamberal Lagoon.

12pm - left home, GPS estimate travel time 80 minutes travel time
2pm - arrived after inexplicable traffic jam at various points (and it's Saturday afternoon!)
2:30pm - went in for my first swim after having lunch
2:50pm - got out of the water
3pm - started to set up the tent
3:30pm-lying in the tent watching light clouds passing the patch of blue sky; munching a leftover sandwich and thinking to myself how good life is.
3:33pm - felt the first drop of rain.
3:35pm - got out of the tent and started setting up the rain cover
3:50pm - still setting up the rain cover; storm arrived.
4pm - hid inside the tent while thunders roared and wind threatened to blow my tent away; K was still working on the rain cover, soaked
4:10pm - K gave up on the last bit of rain cover which was supposed to be an extension; both of us waited inside the tent; thunderstorm and heavy rain; to our relief, wind stopped.
4:30pm - rain stopped; dark clouds hang over the horizon; very cold; we quickly broke camp and scrambled back to the car.
5:50pm - got home; covered in sand; exhausted