Fantastic Day - by Luke

This morning Grandma Chris and Grandpa Don came over and we went fishing.  We fished from the pier.  I was fishing for baby sharks – the rangers here let people borrow the poles for free!  

  I didn’t catch anything! 

 

My sisters were taking turns casting on another pole – but they weren’t too lucky either and they got pretty bored.  

But my dad's pole caught the tail of a baby hammerhead shark! A bonnet head shark to be specific.  (Grandma Chris had cast the line that time.)  

Another angler caught it in the mouth, but dad’s line twisted around the body and tail and it got all tangled up.  Because of that, dad got to help reel it in and hold it in his hands while someone else untangled it and took the hook out. 

 

 

After lunch, we went to the beach.  Mom and I walked the beach looking for sand dollars, but we didn’t find one.  We found lots of pretty shells, a crab leg, and a gigantic horseshoe crab.  We don’t know if it was alive or dead.   Then we played in the surf as the tide came in.  It got deeper and deeper by the minute.

  



Sophie was feisty at the beach and was playing in the water too.

Our campsite here is really spacious and beautiful.  It is surrounded by plants and if you are coming off the road you can’t see us until you are in front of us!

We are leaving tomorrow for North Carolina and will be in the Outer Banks up there on Saturday.