Exploring

Cloudy again with a few spots of rain and up to70F

Today was our first day looking around the area, we went about 8 miles south to the Gulf Coast. The beaches were excellent, fine white sand stretching in excess of 10 miles. We did a little walking on the beach but the strong winds made it a little cool. The winds also whipped up 6-8ft waves along the shore. There were quite a few washed up jelly fish on the beach, mostly clear with a light blue with a light blue colour and a thin red stripe along the back and dark blue tentacles.

We drove along the beach road for a number of miles, there were plenty of beach house built high on stilts, I guess as a precaution against high seas in hurricane season.

We headed back to the campground (Hazel, skip to the next paragraph) when I spotted a store called Sweety Pies. As it was coffee time we decided to pay a visit, as well as coffee there was a fantastic assortment of home made pies, the ones we had unfortunately tasted fantastic so we’ll have to go back and try some of the others!

After dinner we took a quick walk around the campsite and dropped by the rec centre as there was a jam session in progress. We popped in to listen for a couple of minutes and finally left 45 minutes later when they quit. There were 2 keyboards, 2 electric guitars, 2 acoustical guitars, 1 harmonica and a banjo. Quite good entertainment!