Fishing Part 2 by the kids

Drew:
Today we went fishing by the ferry dock. It was a little windy but it still was fun. I talked with my granddaddy and he gave me fishing tips. One of the tips was "if you lower your rod you will not feel the bite". He was actually right.


Molly:

Today we when to the beach and we built a sand sculpture. It was a water bottle. We made a waterfall, we went in the water, and dug holes. Overall we had a fun time!

Mom:
We also caught fiddler crabs (held by Alex and Molly in the pictures).

Sand Sculptures

We went to the sand sculpture contest on the Isle of Palms today. It was pretty cool (well pretty hot actually) and also inspiring. Here is one of our favorite entrants and also our starfish sculpture created on our beach later that afternoon.





John and Joan joined us in the island - our last guests ... we had a yummy BBQ lunch on Sullivan's at Home Team BBQ and then brought them to our temporary home on the island which was at least 10 degrees cooler than the mainland.

Drew Caught a Fish!!!!!!! Or Three!!!!!

The guys went fishing today. After much trying to figure out the fishing rod on my part, Andy took the kids out and they caught 3 fish! No Andy doesn't have any fishing experience ... as he said (was it only once?) "I am one for one on the crabbing and one for one on the fishing!"

Drew caught a toad fish which looks totally disgusting to me and 2 Sheepshead one which was small and one which was bigger according to Drew.

Drew's quote: "It was exciting and the fish was very heavy."


Toad fish in the first picture, smaller Sheepshead and bigger sheepshead in the next two.

Crab Dinner

After much crabbing and sightings of Allie the alligator, Andy and Drew (yes the rest of us rested in front of the TV) caught 4 crabs for dinner.

Memorial Day Week-end Fun

We had our good friends the La Kier's stay with us for Memorial Day week-end. The kids had a blast. We spent lots of time at the beach of course. We also got to experience a marsh nature program and Molly and Rachel discovered how great it is to "hum" periwinkles out of their shells! All the kids enjoyed trying to catch crabs - and even took turns putting the bait on the hook. On Sunday we went to a Memorial Day party and ate yummy food, heard veterans singing patriotic songs and played.




Molly and Rachel hum to their snails.