Showing posts with label travels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travels. Show all posts

Saturday, September 18, 2010

a weekend away from soap – part ii – Jekyll Island

Hello island.  Where have you been all my life???  What a great place to visit.  Unfortunately we were just island/beach hopping on our way home but we were so happy to find this gem and plan on going back for a more appropriate amount of time (1.5 hours just wasn’t enough.)

Our favorite beach was Driftwood Beach.  What an amazing view of dead trees.  I know that sounds funny, but they were smooth and twisty both on the tops and the bottoms.  It looks like a giant just plucked them out of the ground like a weed and left them on the shore to die.

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Teagan loved it there.  Lots of climbing and peeking.  Exploring to be done everywhere.  It was like no other beach I’ve seen.

And the best was Crab Hunting.  Yes, I said crab hunting.  T quickly made friends with a boy who was a maybe a year or two older and his harem of little girls.  The girls (and T) would spot the crabs (who were crawling all over the trees and rocks) and the boy would swoop in and catch them in his bare hands.  Oh, to be young again.
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And then of course, I had to join in the fun but purely by accident.  As we were saying good-bye to T’s new friends, I looked down as the sand moved under my foot.  The boy didn’t believe me when I said he might want to bring his bucket for this one (last image)!

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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

a weekend away from soap – St. Augustine, FL

Even the best of us needs to take a break, and that’s just what we did for Labor Day Weekend.  We cruised south to St. Augustine, FL then worked our way back home hitting some great beaches along the way.

There is just something about a kid playing at the beach that I just can’t seem to get enough of…

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I guess it’s the innocence, exploration, creativity and just good ‘ole fun in a humungous sandbox.  By the way, the structure that he was building in the last picture wasn’t a sandcastle.  Oh no, that would be too traditional.  It was Asia.  Complete with Mount Everest and a Yeti.

Oh, and the “King of the Hill” image was actually Teagan scaling a sand dune.  Luckily he was too young to read the “Keep of the Dunes” sign.


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