As I said in the previous post, I've always been a Gulf Coast girl when it comes to the beach. Grew up going to Destin followed by Orange Beach/Perdido with an occasional Gulf Shores trip thrown in there with college friends. This year, though, my brother found this little gem of a place for our extended family called Cape San Blas (pronounced blass like glass). Here is the website for this amazing place- much better description than I can give! It's a little peninsula out from Port St. Joe-miles and miles of undisturbed beach featuring TONS of shells, amazing sunsets, miles of state parks to explore etc etc etc. As a beach lover, i felt deprived that I had never heard of this place!
And yes, we went just a few weeks after returning from Myrtle Beach. Not a bad deal.
My sweet husband is always very accommodating to help me get my beach fill even though it is not admittedly his favorite way to vacay... (He would choose mountains, fly fishing etc). Thankfully at this vacation destination, fishing is a big deal so he was able to try his hand at fishing in the surf.
Kids loved giving the fishing a try too...
He finally had luck on the last day and brought in about 20 salt water catfish one after the other, but otherwise not much luck in the surf. On the St. Joseph Bay side of the peninsula, however, he had a little more luck...
...bringing in this saltwater cobia- much to the delight of the kids (and a local fishermen who offered to take it off our hands before we knew what good eating cobia are supposed to be...)
Also, on the bay side, where we spent an afternoon, the kids had tons of fun seeing more wildlife.
Maddie found this gorgeous conch. I don't think I had ever seen the orange-ish critter living inside.
The kids were also delighted by the starfish and hermit crabs crawling all around the bay.
Jason also got to break in his father's day present- a new inflatable kayak. It was the perfect place to break it in.
Both in the bay...
And the ocean...
Truly, this was the perfect place-fishing and biking and kayaking for the non-beach bums. And, beach for days, for those of us who could do nothing but sit on the beach for 8 hours a day for weeks on end.
Our morning set up...
Lots of sand to play in.
Dig...
Bury...
Build...
These 2 loved all their together time...
One of the favorite games of the younger cousins was "1,2,3"- basically holding Annie's hands and jumping in the surf. One would think they might tire of this. They did not.
They did learn to venture off on their own. Anabelle became pretty fearless as she watched her cousins and sisters...
Fun times had by all...
There was even some pyramid attempts. That didn't really go so well...
Let's do a line instead...
One of the beauties of our little beach destination was the scarcity of restaurants, commercial property etc. There was one place just down the street that we went to several times and loved- Coneheads. As with most things on the Cape- beautiful sunsets...
This little man taking it in. Love him.
Love them all...
John and Liz were told to duck...
So we could get this picture of Annie and Da and the grands...
And of course, no beach vacation would be complete without the required family pictures...
Getting ready...
All in all we got some great pics. Thanks to Nan (my sis-in-laws mom), our fearless photographer!
Love these girls so.
And this guy...
Amazing beach vacation!
Hope we'll be back soon!
And of course, we always take a bit of the beach with us. Sorting through our latest shell collection...
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