Beachy Day

Our monthly beach day came this Saturday. She-girl, a week earlier, had actually told me she wanted to go to the beach and since we were busy that Saturday I promised her we would go the next Saturday. We went out to the base beach. From the parking lot we walk along about half of a mile board walk and then the beach is about a quarter of mile from the end of the board walk to the water. It had been stormy (from Tropical Storm Eduardo) and water had formed pools all over the beach. Double red flags were flying on the local beaches so no getting in the water for us but to wade in knee deep to rinse off sand. It was an overcast day and so not too hot although I still got burned through 45 sunblock.
The kids love to dig in the sand. Ray and I have tried to teach them how to build sand castles but they crush them as fast as we make them. I played in the sand with them and She-girl and I buried our feet.
We also went wading in some of the small pools. We looked for shells. There were small ones and broken large ones but not too many. The storm had either washed them away or someone had already gathered them up.
She-girl crushed this pile of sand. They had tons of fun.

We did walk along the surf where T-man and She-girl ran away from the waves as they came in. Double red flags are a serious thing and local beaches have had 5 drowning deaths in the last week. But you can have fun at the beach without getting in the water. They are the world's largest sand boxes.