Beach Trip Round 1: Down by the Bay

 Despite the regular posting, we were gone all last week to Chincoteague Island!



We had a house with Grammy on the west coast of the island, and so were treated to a variety of beautiful sunsets over Chincoteague Bay.

On the other side, you could drive a short distance to Assateague and see the sun rise over the Atlantic!

This was an amazing set up in several ways: we were in the middle of a salt marsh, an ecosystem which we'd never experienced, the private board walk ran through the marsh to a dock in the Bay, complete with a crab catching cage, and we were surrounded by wildlife, including more snowy egrets that you could shake a stork at!

Ahem.

Fortunately, I had thought ahead and brought my microscope, complete with well slides for looking at microscopic water creatures!

Yeah, I do know most people would have brought binoculars for looking at the birds... I kind of wonder what my kids will think when they grow up and find that not everyone takes a microscope on summer vacation.  Don't spill the beans, OK?

Tomorrow: What we saw with the microscope!