3 posts tagged “st. joseph penninsula state park”
Especially NOT when you're headed to Florida for two glorious weeks of sun, surf, snorkeling and seafood! I've been getting ready to go by replacing most of our beach gear and my footwear. I found these glorious flip flops at the Beehive in Ruston. I got brown and blue ones to wear with my new swimsuit.
And peace to wear with everything.
I couldn't resist the camo sparkly ones even though I have very little to wear with them.
I got this great bag to take to the beach when I wear my black swimsuit.
Don't 'cha just love the fleur de lis flip flops? I couldn't resist the blue bag and had it monogrammed with a brown B to coordinate with my new blue and brown swimsuit.
Tomorrow, hopefully by noon, we'll be headed here:
Be back in mid-July! Happy Summer!
After relaxing on the beach for a couple of days, the weather was finally stable enough for a snorkeling expedition. Our camping neighbors had not had much luck with the scallops but admitted that they were not experts. Nevertheless, we loaded up our tiny boat and headed out to our favorite scallop spots. I didn't bring a waterproof camera with me so I don't have any boat or actual snorkeling pics this time to share. We have to motor about 45 mins to go the three miles or so to our starting point in St. Joseph Bay.
It took about an hour to find a spot with plenty of scallops but they were there just waiting for us to pick them up!
Here are a few pics of Pat and the scallop-cleaning process. He's gotten better at cleaning them, it only takes him about 2 hours to clean our 4 gallons.
The delicious final product before it is released from the shell for cooking.
Pat finishes with a sip of his favorite beverage and it's on to the next one.
That's enough for now. I have tons of cleaning to do here and need to make a trip to WalMart this morning. Tomorrow I'll post the pics of my favorite nautical antiques shop in Appalachicola.
We spent our first full day in Florida just relaxing on the beautiful beaches of Cape San Blas in St. Joseph Penninsula State Park.
After getting our fishing licenses, icing down some beverages, collecting our gear and books, we headed out to the beach for a relaxing day of fishing, reading and sunning.
We enjoy the shore birds and other wildlife.
The surf was fairly high the first couple of days and the purple flags were out warning of jellyfish in the water. Our beach neighbor caught this Remora and wandered over to inquire whether to keep it or throw it back. We also caught one but this pic is of hers.
After finishing one book, failing to catch dinner and getting plenty of sun, we enjoyed our first sunset of the week. None of the sunsets were special all week...either too many clouds or too few...today it was too many.
But anytime you're at the beach watching the sunset, it IS special!
I have a ton of things to do today. Get a haircut, go help my boss with her new toy...a new Canon digital SLR...can't remember which one but my lack of cell and internet service while on vacation meant that she had to pick out her camera without my help. We're going to play with it today. And get started on this filthy house! We picked out new den furniture while on vacation and I need to get it ordered. We have to paint the room first so we have to empty it. Big project. Here's a pic of our new sofas. They're slipcovered in denim. Most appropriate for us!
I'm letting Pat keep his ugly recliner but I'm getting this chair and an ottoman that matches the sofas.
I'll paint the room a light khaki color...I think. The sofas are on sale so I'm ready to get started. Have a great day ya'll!
