Panama City Beach - Day 4

The days are flying by! It is hard to believe it is already Tuesday. This morning Kevin left at 6:30 again and went to have breakfast. He loves to get up early and go eat. He does that so he will not wake the entire house. After returning and working for a while, we decided to take a ride down the coast. I packed us a cooler and sandwiches for lunch and we headed out. Our intent was to go to Mexico Beach. But when we arrived Kevin kept going. I had told him about a lighthouse that I would like to see. So we went to Cape San Blas. We ended up driving 60 miles. We went through several small towns that reminded me of a small, sleepy fishing village. We drove through Port St. Joe and saw a naval base and an air force base. We arrived in Cape San Blas and could see the lighthouse from the road. We took pictures and took a stroll down the coast. There were only a few people there. They all looked like locals just fishing. But basically there was no one there! The sea shells were everywhere. Justin, Meaghan and Michael had a great time looking for them. We also saw several Sea Turtle Nests and something in the water. We are not really sure what it was. We could see fins and it sort of moving in the water. Kevin said it was probably a fish of some sort that was either chasing something or being chased. This is defiantly somewhere we will visit again. As we began to walk back to the truck the clouds started rolling in. It began to rain as we left and it has just stopped – 6:30! The kids have all gone to the pool for a nightly swim before settling in for the night. Here is the link to today’s pictures.

Edited @ 8:30P.M.

I thought we were in for the night earlier, but the boys wanted to go to the beach and fish for a while. The five of us went down and Kevin helped Justin get started. He was doing very well for a while and then he yelled for his Dad. We thought he had caught a fish, no - he caught a BIRD! The bird landed on top of his line and got tangled in it. Of course, we did not have the cutters with us, so Kevin had to try to get her untangled. He was trying to free her without hurting her and without her hurting him. Luckily, he was successful! Afterwards we all laughed at Justin! Even Meaghan had to make a comment, "Now that was down right funny"! Where she got that I will never know. I was able to get some of the encounter on film, so I had to edit and update my flickr. Now, I am going to take my pm's and head to bed to read. Good night to all!!!