Sunday, March 27, 2005
They searched for seashells by the seashore at Sanibel
Day 4, Thursday.......we drove down to Sanibel Island. It should have been about a 3 hour drive. And it was, to the island. But then they had these traffic guards, causing traffic jams. Instead of just letting the 4-way stop work the way it's supposed to, letting traffic flow........they had to get in the middle and mix it all up. It took an hour to go about 3 miles on the island. And an hour to do the same route back. You could also still see the hurricane damage on the island. Wow. We had been wanting to drive up to Captiva Island, but b/c of the traffic, we didn't.
But, they don't say that Sanibel Island is the best place to go shelling in the US for nothing. Wow. It was amazing. We were at the beach for 3 hours. We found tons of shells, and the kids had so much fun. The beach we went to, Bowman's Beach, was one of the ones mentioned in all the tourist guides as the beach to go to - but it wasn't even that crowded, which was wonderful. The waves were great too, so Brennen and I took turns playing in the waves and looking for shells on the sand under the water, and watching the kids. And I got sunburned, kind of bad. I decided I'd rather come home with a little color instead of white LOL.
After the beach, we went to a nature preservation, which was supposed to be really cool........we drove the 5 mile route, saw some birds and that was it. Turns out to see the gators and such, you have to do the walking trail. But we were too tired to do that after being at the beach for so long. So, it was pretty but a little disappointing for as big as they talked the refuge up.
But, they don't say that Sanibel Island is the best place to go shelling in the US for nothing. Wow. It was amazing. We were at the beach for 3 hours. We found tons of shells, and the kids had so much fun. The beach we went to, Bowman's Beach, was one of the ones mentioned in all the tourist guides as the beach to go to - but it wasn't even that crowded, which was wonderful. The waves were great too, so Brennen and I took turns playing in the waves and looking for shells on the sand under the water, and watching the kids. And I got sunburned, kind of bad. I decided I'd rather come home with a little color instead of white LOL.
After the beach, we went to a nature preservation, which was supposed to be really cool........we drove the 5 mile route, saw some birds and that was it. Turns out to see the gators and such, you have to do the walking trail. But we were too tired to do that after being at the beach for so long. So, it was pretty but a little disappointing for as big as they talked the refuge up.
