Post by herchenx on Nov 11, 2013 22:19:25 GMT -5
Our oldest turned 13 this year and all year we've been trying to get her on a special trip to celebrate.
Back in July we got a deal lined up and a few weeks ago the kids had a 3 day weekend so we flew her down to Siesta Key in Florida for a weekend.
She loves the ocean and who doesn't love beautiful warm water so we had a great time.
If you ever get an excuse to go to Florida and just want to go to a beautiful beach I can't over-recommend Siesta Key. We went in a very not-busy time (I hear it can be really busy during tourist season, we went the end of October and it was ideal) - the place we stayed was the Tropical Breeze Resort and we got a little kitchenette suite for around $120 a night which was great, right off the beach (less than 50 yards)
I can't embed images from Dropbox, so here is a link to she and I:
www.dropbox.com/s/qe7x16zpz3dxs5z/2013-10-26%2018.52.05.jpg
Her at the edge of the surf at sunset:
www.dropbox.com/s/ajglzqazoxi0nrr/2013-10-26%2018.50.15.jpg
some shells on the beach:
www.dropbox.com/s/n0rc079iv9a0bf0/2013-10-26%2018.44.48.jpg
My wife and her at turtle beach, no turtles were hatching that weekend:
www.dropbox.com/s/zxyl0magbqrzc2o/2013-10-25%2018.09.22.jpg
Here is a video of her taking a jet ski we rented for a spin while I waited on a sandbar (there was a shark swimming around checking me out while I filmed this)
While we were there, we went to a beach called Caspersen or Kasperson or something like that, right out of Venice, FL, and we found fossil shark teeth. If you go you will need to sieve for them using some sort of mesh or something. We didn't know that and only found any because we swam out to some rocks and the current had deposited some teeth in a little area behind one of the rocks. The folks that were looking hard with the sieve things were finding a dozen or so right at the water's edge in the sand:
Back in July we got a deal lined up and a few weeks ago the kids had a 3 day weekend so we flew her down to Siesta Key in Florida for a weekend.
She loves the ocean and who doesn't love beautiful warm water so we had a great time.
If you ever get an excuse to go to Florida and just want to go to a beautiful beach I can't over-recommend Siesta Key. We went in a very not-busy time (I hear it can be really busy during tourist season, we went the end of October and it was ideal) - the place we stayed was the Tropical Breeze Resort and we got a little kitchenette suite for around $120 a night which was great, right off the beach (less than 50 yards)
I can't embed images from Dropbox, so here is a link to she and I:
www.dropbox.com/s/qe7x16zpz3dxs5z/2013-10-26%2018.52.05.jpg
Her at the edge of the surf at sunset:
www.dropbox.com/s/ajglzqazoxi0nrr/2013-10-26%2018.50.15.jpg
some shells on the beach:
www.dropbox.com/s/n0rc079iv9a0bf0/2013-10-26%2018.44.48.jpg
My wife and her at turtle beach, no turtles were hatching that weekend:
www.dropbox.com/s/zxyl0magbqrzc2o/2013-10-25%2018.09.22.jpg
Here is a video of her taking a jet ski we rented for a spin while I waited on a sandbar (there was a shark swimming around checking me out while I filmed this)
While we were there, we went to a beach called Caspersen or Kasperson or something like that, right out of Venice, FL, and we found fossil shark teeth. If you go you will need to sieve for them using some sort of mesh or something. We didn't know that and only found any because we swam out to some rocks and the current had deposited some teeth in a little area behind one of the rocks. The folks that were looking hard with the sieve things were finding a dozen or so right at the water's edge in the sand:
