Beauty at the Beach

Finally, the cloudy skies were gone and the sun was out this morning when we went to the beach.

Chuck fished this morning, but the fishing was kind of slow and he caught just one small catfish today.

The clouds came back when we went in for lunch but the sun was out bright and sunny when we went back to the beach this afternoon.  Since the fishing was slow and the weather was nice, Chuck skipped fishing and we walked out toward the eastern point.

We saw another spotted starfish that had washed ashore.

As we got to the point, there were hundreds of little sand piles where crabs or some kind of sea creatures had buried themselves down in the sand.

It reminds me of the mudpots we saw in Yellowstone only without the hot burping mud.

Because the tide was still out, we were able to walk all the way around the point to where it came into Boggy Jordan Bayou.

As we walked, along the last bit of beach here, there were lots of hermit crabs stranded on the sand waiting for the tide to come in and take them back out...

and lots of "land" crabs scattering back into the weeds and grasses as we walked by them.

After we had walked as far as we could go, we could look over the grasses and see the back of Boggy Jordan Bayou.

God's creation is absolutely amazing.  We have been blessed to see some well-known spectacles in nature like the geysers in Yellowstone, the majestic mountains at Glacier, the thousand year old Redwoods, Alaskan glaciers, and Mt. St. Helens.  But even here, along this very small stretch of beach in Carrabelle, we are blessed to see and experience even more of our loving Father's beautiful and wondrous creation in the bushes,

in the seashore grasses,

and in the flowers growing in the sand.

Even the shells of the little hermit crabs are beautiful.

We walked back to our beach chairs...

...and enjoyed watching the little sandpiper we named Gimpy hopping around on his good leg and picking his dinner out of the sand.

We used to think we weren't all that crazy about the beach.  I mean a week or two for summer vacation was o.k. but we would complain about all the sand and the mosquitoes.  But our time here at Carrabelle may be changing that.