Brace yourself. I have a lot of pictures and not a lot more to say. I just wanted to close out our camping vacation with some final thoughts on my favorite aspect: the beach.
Oh how I love the beach. Or just the coast in general. And not just because it's our livelihood. There's something so thrilling about standing at the edge of the world, and yet so peaceful at the same time. The rythmic lapping of the waves. The far expanses of sand and sea. The ability to draw away from people, place and time and just focus, or not focus, on the emptiness around you. It's calming, to say the least.
Well, until my boys show up. And then it's a loud, boistorous playground. Who knew so much could be found to do in pile of broken shells?
There are actually several beaches at Cape Henlopen. The main one, with a bath house and other amenities. A more private one that most of the surfers frequent, that only has porta potties a good distance away. And another beach that we didn't visit.
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It never rained during the day, but we did have one very threatening cloud! |
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Showing us his crab walk. |
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Guarding the snack mix from seagulls ... or big brothers. |
Our first day there was entirely too windy for the oceanfront so we opted instead to leave the park and head about a mile down the road to Lewes' public beach. We paid a whopping $1.50 to park (turns out the parking lot is very empty in the middle of a September week) and planted ourselves in front of a large sand dune to block the wind. And the kids were more than happy with their lot of sand and ability to trek buckets of water to their sand holes.
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Melissa and Doug cupcake sand toy. |
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"I make you special cupcakes Mama!!" |
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Seaweed sword fights! |
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I may have forgotten to put sunscreen on one day ... I'm paying for it now with a peeling face. :( |
In addition to the old standbys - building sandcastles, digging holes, going on scavenger hunts - we created a few new activities this past week. Like pseudo-skim-boogie-boarding. Jack lays on the boogie board, and Poppa pulls him through the waves. Jack says he's "surfing." And we like to let him think so.
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Love the beach shots of you with the kids!
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