Hilton Head...part 3, Gratuitous Pictures

It's late.  You know how you get back from vacation and it's a struggle to get back in the groove?  Wait!  Maybe that's just me.  I just can not find my mojo this week.  So, in lieu of a witty vacation recap, I figured I'd let those 1000 words do the talking.  :)

Did you know there are alligators in the South?  On Hilton Head there are lots of alligators.  I don't think we ever passed a pond without pausing to look for the gator.

The big picture is of the one in our backyard...literally.  They like to come out and sun themselves sometimes.  No, there are no fences.  No, we didn't get too close.  :)

 I only took my camera to the beach one day, I didn't want to take too many chances with it.  Fortunately, that was the day we found the sand dollars.  Zillions of them.  It was low tide and there was a shelf in the water of them.  The kids and Mark said you literally could not step in that area without stepping on 4 or 5 of them.  Crazy!  Unfortunately, we missed pictures of the starfish laying right beside Julianna in a tide pool!  Or the sting ray a little girl caught fishing.  Or the pelicans, which are one of my favorite sights at the ocean.  That's okay, the memories are there.  :)  (No, we didn't take anything home, if we had found it dead we would have, but otherwise it just didn't feel right to us.)

The beach is definitely the perfect place to fly a kite.

Self-explanatory.  It really was a perfect time.  Well, perfect except for the 3 jelly fish stings for Julianna, 3 for Mark, and 1 for Jacob.  Rebekah and I contented ourselves with staying in the sand and the tide--relatively jelly fish free.  Unfortunately, after Julianna's 3 stings she decided she would no longer get in the water either.  I was sad for her because she had absolutely loved it, but I definitely understand.  Three stings in one day would definitely be three strikes and I'm out for me too.

Thanks for sharing my vacation memories with me.