The Be-ach!

We finally got a week off this month to get away and do nothing for a week. We have made it a tradition to go to St. Joe’s Peninsula, FL. It’s a state park with preserved dunes. Being a peninsula, it had a coast side and a bay side. Both are fun to play in.

In the bay we took nets and caught some exciting creatures. We started with shells and then moved on to sea urchins and crabs! We did catch some blue crab and some other strange crab and ate them! Well, just the blue crab, the other was took creepy and had no meat!

The best part (to me) was the coast side where the water is clear and the sand is white. I love to just lay next to the ocean and listen to the waves crash into the shore. Not to mention the sea breeze is so refreshing! We all wore like 50 and 60 spf, so no worries.

Did I mention that we were camping? The little campsites consist of a sandy spot with some palm trees. Basically a little oasis! The weather was so beautiful, and the temperatures were perfect (high in 80’s the lows in 60’s)! And for those of you giving me full credit for roughing it for a week, no, I DID have some nice utilities that were cleaned like twice a day. Nothing like going to the beach and then being able to shower before bed, every night!

Steph came with us, and I’m so glad she did! We had fun laying out and being adventurous (in the bay)! I think she was skeptical at first but made the best of it! We read like two books each and refueled on our R&R (rest and relaxation)!

We went out for sea food one night and decided on a close place. Outside it looked like a beach bum-ish type place but inside the lights were turned down and the servers all wore black. The appetizers were really fancy but the main dishes mostly consisted of deep fried sea food. So, of course we decide on the “platter” of food. We had fried grouper, scallops, clam strips and shrimp.

All of it was pretty good but the best part of the evening was the terrible music they played. And terrible is an understatement. It must have been some kind of soundtrack or cd. Steph thinks it was shuffle with like five songs. Either way, we heard the same five songs over and over. If that wasn’t bad enough, the artist was worse! He was like a Jimmy Buffet-Kenny Rogers wannabe! He would use phrases like “Beach bum barbecue” and “freezing my rear in the north”! Terrible, but definitely memorable!

For our last night we walked on the beach during sunset and got some really nice pictures! I can’t tell anyone enough, how much I LOVE the beach!

It was so nice, I can’t wait to go back!