Beach Stuff: Paddleboarding

Low tide is my favorite.
You find good stuff.
And if it is sunset?
Beautiful.

Perfect time to tease the sharks.
These girls love the surf!

 

I love exploring the spoils of the sea with my girls.

It's the little things.

They add up to alot.

Somewhere

The storms here are fantastic.
The other day I looked out of our back sliding door and saw this.
So of course I had to run across the street...

The top right photo isn't in black and white.

The storms suck all the color from the horizon sometimes.

Leaving everything shades of sun bleached grey.

My friend's backyard as a storm rolls in.

Just another reason why we love it here.

A Trip to San Fernandina

 Cool bridge, hunh?

We went up to San Fernandina beach for a Saturday of family to celebrate my baby sister Chelsey's engagement. It was hot. REAL hot. but I got some nice pics.

Wanna see?

Eden played with that dog for about 30 minutes.

Coon girls.

They had a lovely alley full of farmer's market goodness.
Those blackberries were like 2 inches.
Huge.

Sparkly.

Eden pronounces "thirsty" more like "slirsty".
She is ALWAYS "slirsty".

Here they are.
So young and happy and in love.

Grandmama sweetness.

Kiss!

More kiss.

 
Hand Jive.

Even more kiss.

A toast to the happy couple.

 
My lovely sister. 

After lunch car nap hair.
Impressive.

On Your Mark

 Get set...

Strong arm them out of the way!

 Beach crowd

 My Madee

 Cleaning out a turtle nest. This is our landlord, and he works with the Sea Turtles in Volusia County. This time of year, he calls us when they are cleaning out a nest that has hatched. Sometimes they find live hatchers. Sometimes they find ones that didn't make it.

This particular nest was all finished hatching. looks at the eggs! They look all rubbery and weird! This haul had 109 eggs, 105 successfully hatched and off to start a life! Pretty good odds!

 Erica.

 Charlie.

 The trophy husband.

 Rock and Roll

 Ice cream

 Such a big day. Hours at the beach, Back to the beach for turtles, then ice cream. Tired Sun eyes.

Kid can hula hoop.

 

 Kid can melt my heart.