As T&T read­ied it­self to head to the poll to­day with the Gen­er­al Elec­tion ex­tend­ing the school va­ca­tion by one day, sev­er­al fam­i­lies opt­ed to take ad­van­tage of the chance to take a last dip in the salt yes­ter­day.

While Mara­cas Beach was scat­tered with old and young soak­ing up the sun, sand and sea; watch­ful life­guards kept up a steady pa­trol as they sought to en­sure it was an in­ci­dent-free day.

Keep­ing a watch­ful eye on the chil­dren play­ing foot­ball and build­ing sand­cas­tles as the adults swam out past the break­ers, life­guard Lu­cin­da Guer­ra con­firmed yes­ter­day’s crowd was “more man­age­able” com­pared to the bumper num­bers they had seen over the East­er week­end.