Island Walk

One beach north of ours is a small island (not really an island, just what the kids call it) that during low tide you can walk to.  We have talked about doing the walk for a while but we don’t seem to get the timing right with the tide.  On this day, we were going to another beach and playground when driving past Ellie said look daddy we can walk to the island.  After a quick check if everyone had the proper shoes I turned around and parked for our mission to walk to the island.  As we were getting out of the car, I realized that Ellie did have her sandals but not the ones for walking on rocks at the beach.  Then Cooper having the right footwear didn’t want to walk on the rocks or sand.  We finally made it to the island and we all had a good time looking around.  Ellie found some starfish and after asking, touched them.  Cooper went on his knees to touch them then went to lick one of them.  Good thing I was paying attention to him!  On the way back to the car, we found a cool tree swing and Ellie had a go.  Cooper tried to help me take a photo of her by standing in front of the flash.  We all made it back to the car safely and hungry after our island walk.  Ellie and I discussed trying it again in a few weeks without Cooper.  (We do go to the island again with much better results.  Blog post in the future)