We went to Cape Lookout, on the coast. I grew up camping in the woods alongside a river. Camping at the beach is completely new to me. You can hear the ocean from your tent as you fall asleep! And you can hear it when you wake up! And then you walk over a dune and down to the water at seven in the morning and you have it nearly to yourself, just you and your family running on the sand and collecting sand dollars and crab claws and explaining that you’re saying “mussel,” not “muscle,” ( “Yes, it’s a muscle, but what kind of animal was it?” “A mussel.” “But a muscle from what?”) and it’s all just…perfect. Best trip ever.
Great pics.
Bernie took my boys camping at the beach a couple of years ago, but had a “different” experience there — it was Myrtle Beach, SC, and he accidentally picked “Biker Week.” Raucous partying into the wee hours of the night, trying to get little ones to sleep despite the roaring motorcycle engines and carousing going on beyond the tent walls… But come 5 AM, rowdy little boys were running around shrieking on the beach while big, hungover biker boys groaned grumpily in their tents.
Mussels/Muscles — cute. 🙂
That sounds like Heaven! I can’t wait to take my baby boy camping. There are no oceans where we live though.
your pictures certainly prove it was the best rip ever – those are some happy and contented looking kids (and parents!)
What great pictures and memories. Although it’s hard to look at the pictures of socks and jackets when the predicted high today is 100 degrees!
What lovely photos. How’s the water temp compared to the East Coast? (I like to see your writers list in the sidebar.)
Looking at those pics I could smell the Pacific. Wonderful.
Such nice pics and sounds like a wonderful time. I like the pic showing your red socks! I first saw your knitting patterns in Knitty and always associate you with red socks, I think due to the blog pic you have showing your feet amongst the wonderful fall leaves.
Lol! just noticed your header – that’s the pic but your socks aren’t handknitted or red, so must just be the reds in the pic that make me think of red socks. Funny brain I have.