Vacation

The next few days of our vacation we spent exploring the beaches of St. Augustine and the Intercoastal Waterway on our kayaks.  The second night we got some fresh seafood and took our grill out to the beach at our campground. Chris grilled fresh shrimp and steamed clams for dinner while the kids explored and played with waterguns.  At one point we had to stop everything and search under the sand for wherever Adam buried the waterguns.  He couldn't remember where he put them. 

 This shrimp was soooo good.  I don't know how we kept the sand out of it.  Lemon zest, salt, pepper...all you need. The boys and I devoured it. 

Chris steamed clams for himself.

 Now to the coolest part of our entire vacation!!  We launched our kayaks in the intercoastal waterway just wanting to check out the awesome beach homes and sailboats anchored there.  We paddled around to where the water opened into the ocean and my sister yells, "Look! Dolphins!"  We scanned this very shallow area where we saw a family of dolphins PLAYING in the shallows.  There were about 3 adults and 3 babies that we could tell.  We paddled up to about 10-15 yards from them as they just tooled around, rolling against each other, and bobbing up and down.  We watched them and followed them around the shallows for at least 30 minutes.  We were in awe!!  I think I took about 50 pictures of them, but only got a dolphin in the shot of about 10 pics. 

Caleb remembered how to squeak at them from our trip to the dolphin exhibit the day before so you can hear him in the video trying to communicate with them as they go by.