Everyone get out of the water!

So I missed posting yesterday… due to the excitement and it was just a very long day.  We had a great morning, took our time and made it down to the beach (our first trip for the day).  We searched for shells, yes, more shells, mainly because the water was still kind of dirty from [...]

Snakes at the beach??…

Oh yeah… it can happen.  Happened to us this evening when we drove a few miles down the peninsula to an area commonly called ’stump hole’, named after the many tree stumps that line the beach.  We spent a few hours there back in June when we were down, so thought we would go back [...]

Shells, shells and more shells…

Everyone was well rested this morning when we awoke.  We had breakfast and decided since the weather was nice, we would venture down to the beach to see what we could find.  I assumed the water would be much more clear today since the waves has died down a great deal from yesterday.  We quickly [...]

First Hurricane…

Yesterday evening, the waves were beginning to increase in size as Hurricane Gustav approached from Cuba.  I took Caroline down to the beach to get a closer look.    The wind was blowing the sand so badly that I had to keep Caroline on the opposite side of me to prevent her from being hit [...]