Florida 2013 Part 5

After our wreckless (well not exactly wreckLESS) supper at The Wreck, we slept at a Holiday Inn and had breakfast there in the morning. Their bagels were actually not too bad! Another odd thing about their breakfast: they had a tip jar! Daddy said that he had never seen one of those at a hotel before. After breakfast, we drove to Bahia Honda State Park. We were there early enough to claim one of the shelters for the day. We swam for the whole morning and "snorkeled" in the afternoon. We didn't actually have snorkel gear, but Mommy and Daddy had bought us goggles, so we used those. And they worked pretty well!

We were able to get this picture before a park ranger told us we weren't supposed to be climbing on the trees.

Brothers!

Having a fun time swimming together

This is a Queen Conch. If you look close enough, you can see it sitting inside there. When I found it in the water, I couldn't believe it!

Kara found a small starfish under a rock. Under water! It was pretty cool! It even stuck to our hands when we held it.

 Darin and Kara found a sea urchin while snorkeling as well. It was pretty sharp!

 I found a closed shell underwater and decided to bring it up and try to open it, since it felt pretty heavy. We opened it and found an octopus! Or maybe a squid. But we were all pretty surprised!

 We put the octopus/squid in a bucket with water and some sand. Inside its shell were some small clearish elongated things that we guessed to be larvae. When we put it in the bucket, it started darting around and swimming. Then it squirted out some black stuff. It was pretty cool!

After we packed up, we showered and left the beach. Then we drove to Keys Fisheries for supper. It was right on the water and all the fish was fresh. Supper was a lot better than the night before! 

We all got pretty burnt in the sun at the beach.

THIS is our supper. The salad in the left foreground is Daddy's and the dish at the back is Mommy's. Daddy had a chicken salad and Mommy had some sort of lemon flavored fish. The two dishes of Lobster Mac 'n' Cheese are Darin and Natalie's and Kara's and mine.

After supper we went to Sweet Savannah's for ice cream. On the wall outside the shop was a large cupcake with light pink frosting and sparkly sprinkles.  So, OF COURSE Kara HAD to have her picture taken next to it! :-)