Another trip almost done

We are currently outside Beaufort, SC not too far away from Hunting Island, which is the location of the lighthouse above.  We leave for home on Tuesday.  It's been a great trip and just want to catch you up on our travels. 

We left off at Gulf State Park, Alabama.  Our second week there was full of more of the same, fishing, biking, great food and blue water and sunshine.

The water the last few days in Alabama was just such a beautiful blue.

You could see the bottom!

Rog did go fishing again and managed to catch enough for two meals!

He also managed to attract a pelican while catching a catfish!  We needed these two guys to help get the pelican to release the bit of squid while the other released the catfish!

This is one of the mullet he caught

On the bike trail

We did manage to ride almost all of the bike trails.  Kudos to the state park for providing the well maintained and beautiful trail system.

We visited Fort Morgan about an hour away, we were curious how it would compare to other forts we have checked out.

We arrived in SC on Halloween.  Rog's brother, Darrell, his wife Tracy and daughter Destiney live here in Beaufort.  We have enjoyed our visit with them.  They have been very kind to show us the sites, including Hilton Head, Hunting Island, Port Royal and Beaufort.  We've fished, walked and enjoyed some nice restaurants. 

We are camped at Camp Lake Jasper just off I95. We were supposed to stay at Hunting Island, but the hurricanes did their worst and the campground still isn't open.  We are happy with Camp Lake Jasper.  Here are a couple pics.

We were surprised at how congested Hilton Head is. Shops, restaurants, condos and hotels with a beach and lots of golf courses.  We did enjoy walking the beach

We had a mission to find shark's teeth for our grandson Logan.  Destiney is the Queen of shark's teeth hunting!

This is the boardwalk that leads to the beach.  We joked that the elderly couple on the swing will be Rog and Nita in a few years!

It was a beautiful day.

Hunting Island is very natural, not commercialized.  Loved it there.  While everyone fished, Nita walked around and took some pics.

Ivan tells me this is a crowd of Ibis, not a flock, thanks Ivan! You learn something new everyday.

No explanation needed!

That's Tracy, Darrell, Destiney and Rog on top of this viewing tower in Port Royal.  Someone had to stay on the ground to get the picture, right?

It's been a great trip, not sure what else we will see before Tuesday, just wanted to get this posted before we start back.

Hope everyone is well and happy!  We are!  Keep Grabn'life!

Rog and Nita

The Gulf is calling...

Hey everyone! 
Y'all know by now how much we love the ocean.  A week ago we headed south.  Arrived at Gulf State Park on Monday. We are between Gulf Shores and Orange Beach, Alabama.  We chose this park for several reasons.  Our neighbors Dan and Donna told us about it and our cousins Kennen and Terri were just down here, told us how wonderful it was.  So here we are and  thoroughly enjoying ourselves.

Our friends from Austin, Dave and Anita, met us here for a few days.  We enjoyed walking the beach and riding the bike trails with them.

Gulf State Park has 25 miles of bike trails.  We've ridden 28 miles so far.  The paths ramble through the low country vegetation on paved trails and boardwalks crossing marshes and bogs.  It's absolutely wonderful.

This is Lefty the alligator, we rode right past him. He was about 6 foot long.  He didn't seem to mind sharing his space with us.

Gulf state park owns and manages a fishing pier.

Just in case you were wondering how far away you are from home.

We took a fishing 101 pier class, this was our instructor, Shanna, she also taught the kayak class we took

Sam the pelican was breaking the law...

Even if you don't catch a thing the view is breathtaking

We went fishing last night, Rog caught a catfish....we will try again soon for something we actually want to catch!

This is from our kayak class, Anita managed to stay dry!  She was nervous though.  It was fun.

Here are a few other pics from our last week.

Going for a walk by the gulf

We did find a brew pub, Big Beach Brewing, excellent brew!

And that friends, is all we wrote for this post, we are just kickin back and on Bama time.  

Take care and be well!