Beach Bums

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Beach Bums

According to the locals we have been having warmer than normal weather for this area. Who are we to complain. We had a couple of absolutely amazing days at the beach.

The Lashers (Steve and Teresa) and us loaded up the dinghies and off to Caledesi Island. There is no way to get to the island by land, you have to take a boat there.  Into the dinghy again and we landed on shore with our lunch, and umbrella.  We went to the east side of the island and found shellarama. It was low tide and there were shells everywhere.  It was so hard to decide what to keep.  There was some photography, snorkeling, eating, sunbathing.  I can’t even describe what a fabulous day it was.  Our motivation came from our neighbors Hard Dock Café. The day before they went on a dinghy ride and saw lots of dolphins.  That was our motivation but it was too rough out on the Gulf to tolerate in the dinghy so Caledesi it was and it was wonderful.

Crazy looking birds on the beach. It’s a black skimmer.
Our camp-out on the beach

Steve won the prize for best find snorkeling. An anchor. Score!
The was a hermit crab with a hitchhiker. The “thing” on the back of it’s shell. Upon inspections it was soft and squirted water at you when you touched it. It also excreted fluorescent orange goo. Very strange.
You can see the orange strands of goo floating off this thing when we put it back into the water.
Our take from the day at the beach. Yes there are a few pieces of trash. We try to pick up trash everywhere we go.
Horseshoe crabs fascinate me. I was lucky to find this small one still intact. They are very fragile.

Christmas is just around the corner and we planned to go run errands. We were getting our things together to leave and Steve stopped by chanting “beach day, beach day” It was supposed to be hot and humid, so the beach sounded much better than biking all over creation to get errands done. Amanda, Steve and Teresa daughter, is here for the Holidays so she went with us. This time the Gulf was FAC (Flat A** Calm) Out into the Gulf we go in our 10 foot dinghies.  We went all the way to the other end of Honeymoon Island. We pulled up on shore and once again set up on the beach.  We only sat long enough to have lunch.  The rest of the time we spent snorkeling, shelling and exploring.  Steve found some amazing shells snorkeling. Scott found a large conk shell and when he picked it up it had a stone crab in it.  Amanda found a huge deposit of small conk shells.  There were literally thousands of them on shore and in the water.  I couldn’t help to think that something caused this huge die-off and it made me a little sad. However, we had a lot of fun with them. We also discovered sea sponges that washed up on shore.

Steve’s creative mind inspired writing in the sand with shells.

The Lasher crew on FAC Gulf of Mexico.
The Lasher and DeVoll take on Honeymoon Island.

It was another amazing day on the beach.  For you northerners: It is cold today.  High in the 60s. We had to put on long sleeves with our shorts. (I know that was just mean)  Love and miss you all. Wish you could all be down here with us.

Thanks for reading

Karen and Scott

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