Sunday Afternoon:
we played for a little while on the beach before heading to Mark and Beth's for dinner.
Our fist night in the camper :)
Monday
Eating breakfast; bacon and eggs that Kevin cooked for us...yummy!
This was our walk to the beach each day. It wasn't bad at all.
Part 1: The forest-once you entered the forest, you could hear the ocean.
Part 2: The boardwalk over the swamp
Part 3: The bridge over the swamp/marsh
Part 4: The sand dunes
The girls were waiting patiently on us to get the tent set up so they could go play.
Madalyn love playing in the waves. You can't get her our of the water.
This was our tent...the next family might be 10 feet away or 20 feet away. We had the beach to ourselves.
Lunch Time :)
That evening we went down to the causeway, which is near the entrance you cross over the marsh, to see the alligators.
Monday night, Kevin built a campfire and we make S'mores...yum, yum
Tuesday
we had a beautiful morning. That afternoon we had a light rain, then a big storm Tuesday night. We went out to eat that night and to get ice cream since it was stormy and you couldn't go on the beach.
Alexis got to where she liked to lay down in the water and kick her feet. When a wave came, she would open her mouth, stick her tongue out and lick up the water. Haha!
Not sure what prompted her to do this, but Madalyn use to do this all the time, however, never in the sand.
It took some scrubbing to get all that sand out of her hair. :)
Off to the water
My beach pedicure...starfish
Tuesday afternoon, it we had a light rain before our storm. So while Alexis took her nap at the camper, I took Madalyn to the Nature Center they had on campus and the gift shop.
Here's some pictures of the exhibits they had there. They had probably 20 or more different things to look at.
Baby alligator
There was a touch tank with a stingray and horseshoe crab.
Wednesday
It was overcast most of the day. We stayed on the beach all day, ate lunch on the beach, and Alexis even took her nap on the beach.
Madalyn and I went looking for shells and we found some neat ones. One thing we found that I had never found before was a sea urchin. We actually found two!
We found two turtle nests.
The crabs were everywhere running around. I threw this one part of an oatmeal cream pie that Alexis had dropped on the ground. He pounced on it and took it into his hole.
Now back to playing on the beach and in the water
Me and my girls
Kevin and his girls
Our Family
Alexis kept wanting to go out as deep as Madalyn. Madalyn would take off into the ocean and Alexis was right behind her..no fear. (She's laughing in this picture, not crying:0)
Alexis took her nap on the beach this afternoon.
The sun came out Wednesday evening and it turned off very nice. So our trip wouldn't be complete without a few nice beach pictures.
I took a few individual pictures of the girls too.
Alexis had some "beach" hair going on in these pictures...haha! Not much I could do with it.
Blowing kisses
like it in black and white too
Bloopers...
She kept sticking her toe in the crab holes, I just knew a crab was going to get her.
And this was the last few pictures I took of her that evening...I was asking her to smile and this was the reaction I got...LOL!
And she even turned around and stuck her nose up in the air....haha! So, ok, she was done with pictures.
Thursday
Time to pack up and go home. Madalyn and I went out to the beach early that morning to go shell hunting one more time.
Here's our campsite before we packed up
The girls and I went to the marsh boardwalk while Kevin was getting things packed up the camper to keep them busy for a few minutes.
1 comment:
Looks like so much fun!
And I just have to say, your girls are so beautiful and photogenic! I can't get a good picture of both my boys to save my life! I'm so jealous!
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