Beachin' it

In addition to tubing, we had yet to go to Crescent Beach since moving to Gainesville. It is just south of St. Augustine and only about 1.5 hrs from home. We didn't park in the main public lots so we felt like we had the beach to ourselves. The only problem with this is that there is no bathroom and two minutes after we realized it, the kids needed to use one. However, the hour walk on the beach (round trip) to the nearest one was the highlight of the day. We discovered all kinds of things and the kids even rescued some suffocating juvenile permit (a species of fish) that someone had left in a sand bucket.
The kids had fun kicking around the sea foam blobs...
Grant and I played "King of the Sand Hill" while waiting for the bathroom breakers...
Olivia loves to explore and touch everything we find...
Grant does not. No amount of convincing could get him to hold a crab molt...
He is much happier playing in the sand and building 16 castles...
Our white trash umbrella. We didn't realize it had disintegrated until we put it up.