Before heading to the beach this morning we hung out at the park.
Once we got to the beach for our crab collection, it was still high tide. So, not so much crabbing was to be had. Alia did put in a good effort and came up with one tiny one.
On our way home, we picked up some fresh (right out of the oven – and VERY hot) bread. YUM!
After lunch and a short rest (while Alia finished her Week 3 Post) we headed back to the beach. This time we hit the tail end of low tide. At first the kids were not impressed –they were prepared to jump waves, not hunt crabs. However, they quickly found that there were other options during low tide. They found a spot on the rocks where they could jump into a fairly deep section and had fun doing that for a while. Jasmin, unfortunately, got a small cut on her knee, which brought the girls out of the water. So, they joined Lukas in his excavation of a very deep hole.
We went back to check the effects of high tide on the moats and hole after dinner.
Roughly 2 hours had passed.
Since we got an early start on our walk this evening, we went quite far along the beach. It made us appreciate our section of the beach even more, because the further we went, the more trash there was. This could have been a byproduct of “Sunday-at-the-Beach”. [Did I mention that pretty much everything is closed on Sundays? So everyone is at the beach. Everything is closed, except the bread place, which does not qualify as a bakery. It’s more like a Mini-mart with fresh bread.] The quality of the sand was poorer, as well. There were a lot of sharp shell pieces mixed in, which made the stroll a little unpleasant. We headed inland for part of our return (and also in search of ice cream). Once our mission was accomplished (ice cream), we headed back to the beach for the rest of our walk back.
By the way, upon return from our walk (another 1.5 hours) basically no traces of the kids’ sand formation remained.
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