We walked out towards the point towards the east. The clouds continued to build and we could see it starting to rain on the outer islands.
It ended up raining a good part of the day on Thursday but it was a good day to be inside and get caught up on some things. Plus, the rain gave all our awnings and the camper a good washing. :)
On Friday morning, I set my alarm for 6:30 so we could go out and get some sunrise pictures. The way the beach lies here at Carrabelle, I figured the sunrises would be beautiful. We got out to the beach about 15 minutes before sunrise.
It was so peaceful. Watch and listen....
A few seagulls here and there...
some cool cloud formations that we guessed what shapes they looked like (do you see the lobster?)...
and a beautiful sunrise.
After watching the sunrise, we walked back to the camper for breakfast and then headed back out to the beach a little later for a little walk and a little rest.
This is what the beach looks like through my straw hat that I had covering my face. :)
We had grilled shrimp for dinner and they were delicious. Chuck has grilled almost every night we have been in Carrabelle. I'm liking all this Chuck grilling and me not cooking much! :)
You may remember the pork steaks we bought at the Piggly Wiggly in Ashburn. We bought 4 packs thinking we would freeze them and eat them over several months. But we forgot that the refrigerator may have to be turned off while the slide-out is being worked on at Alliance Coach next week. So Chuck has been grilling and we have been eating pork steaks almost every other night. Last night was a pork steak night, tonight was grilled shrimp night and tomorrow night (our last night in Carrabelle) will be our last night for pork steaks. We're still not tired of them though! :)
On Saturday, we got out to the beach earlier because we wanted to be back to the motorhome in time to watch the UT football game at noon. There were not many people out there yet...
...except a couple of guys from Georgia who had come down for the weekend to go fishing. They told us they had caught a lot of fish yesterday evening but it was a little slower this morning.
While we were standing there, one of the guys caught this bonnethead shark.
Say "cheese" Mr. Shark! :)
When he released the shark back into the water, it stayed along the edge of the surf for a couple of minutes...
...before swimming back out to sea.
We decided to walk down the beach toward the stumps a little ways and saw this stingray swimming in the surf.
We turned around and walked back to where the guys were fishing. We decided we would just sit there for awhile and watch them fish. I decided to go back to the camper to get my good camera and a mug of coffee to enjoy at the beach. When I got back, Chuck was not only fishing,
he had a fish hooked. You see that big smile on his face! :)
Chuck had been saying he wished he had bought a fishing license earlier in the week and he could have fished some this week. I had looked up the Florida saltwater fishing license regulations online a couple of days ago and told him that today was a free fishing day -- no license required! He still didn't think he would fish today because we would only be on the beach for about an hour or so this morning.
While I was gone to get my coffee and camera, Chuck was talking to the guys who were there fishing. He noticed one of the guys poles had a bite and the guy asked him to get it for him because he was busy working with another rod. When Chuck saw it was a big fish, he asked him if he wanted it back so he could reel it in. The guy said, "No, you're the catcher so you got to reel it in."
IT WAS A BIG ONE! WATCH...
That was probably the biggest stingray we had ever seen.
After they got the hook released,
they got the stingray turned around and he swam back into the sea.
We sat there and watched them fish for about another hour with Chuck occasionally helping them when they had more than one fish on. They caught another shark...
...and released him.
They caught several other smaller fish while we were watching them including this dogfish.
About 11:45, we loaded up our chairs and walked back to the motorhome to watch the UT/Arkansas State football game. Unfortunately, DirecTV had our programming messed up and it took about 30 minutes of my calling and trying to get through to them to get it fixed. But we only missed about 20 minutes of the game and UT won so everything worked out great!
Later that evening, we walked out to the beach one more time...
...and then sat outside under the slideout (because it was raining) while Chuck was grilling our last pair of pork steaks! :)
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