Darren's Space

So one time I was on holidays in Vietnam and we went to this beautiful beach. The place was fantastic, it was like one of those scenes from a postcard or something.

So we got to this beach and I it was beautiful, but there was no one in the water. I thought to myself, hold on, why is there such beautiful water yet no one frolicking in the Ocean.

Anyway, it was hot as it always is in Vietnam so my brother and I decided to go for a swim. The thing was, we didn’t have any swimming trunks since no one told us we were going to the beach.

My brother and I decided to be real men and just walk into the water as is but as we were halfway down the sand, our mum yelled out “Take off your pants! They’ll get ruined!”. I looked behind and gave mum the Really? Do we have to? look and she just looked back.

I glanced to my left and there were these really cute Vietnamese girls just sitting in these straw chairs and figured, why not, I’m on holiday. So off came my shirt and my shorts and off into the water my brother and I went.

The water was simply amazing. The water was as clear as glass. I could see the sand on the floor and it was nothing like Australian beaches.

As we waded through the water and splashed around, something wrapped itself around my leg. I looked into the water and to me it looked like a plastic bag but it didn’t feel like plastic but rather soft.

I suddenly realised that it was underwear and kicked it away.

After that incident, I didn’t think much about it but my brother and I decided to go out further. We played in the water and did all that fun stuff but then suddenly I felt something brush my leg and it was more underwear.

I looked around the water and I looked over and told my brother “Hey man, there’s a lot of underwear around here.” As I turned around, the light hit that underwear in a strange way and suddenly I realised that it wasn’t underwear, but jellyfish!

“Brandon! It’s not underwear, they’re jellyfish!”. Now, my brother and I had seen Finding Nemo so we knew how dangerous they could be. I pulled my leg back and did this amazing twisting flip thing in the water and spun right over the jellyfish.

I didn’t look back until I was in shallow water. I looked to my left and luckily he was fine too. I asked him if they stung him and he said no. Considering I had kicked at least three of those jelly fish prior to realising that they were jellyfish, it was pretty lucky.

We then waded out of the water and sexily walked out of the water and put on a little show for those Vietnamese girls…

No I kid, we just walked out all casually. I did notice the Vietnamese girls looking me up and down. Probably because I was paler than most people there but whatever.