Day at the beach...Crystal Beach

Yesterday we went to Crystal beach for the day. We discovered this little town on Bolivar Peninsula last summer and fell in love. We were upset when Hurricane Ike hit last september...We were hesitant to go back but went to check it out. The beach itself is great, the town is not close to where they were last year..but they are rebuilding.


Glenne and Hailey in the water. This year she would go off and play in the water with Glenne and I got to relax on the beach. ( I may try bringing a book with me next time! haha)
She was concentrating so much and enjoying playing this was the only picture I got of her looking up at me..sorta!

She loves the beach and playing in the sand.

Notice the 2 buckets...she was switching back and forth betweent he buckets putting the sand in them....and shells she found too

putting sand in both buckets......

Ok...so a little backwards here....but oh well! To get to Crystal Beach on Bolivar Peninsula you can take one highway and take the one road all the way in or take the ferry boat over (it can be a wait) and get out of the car for the boat ride and watch the dolphins swimming next to or in front of the boat. Hailey loves to look for the dolphins and at one point either goint to the beach or coming back there was one directly in front of us....if we were beyond the ramp we could have touched it!!!!


Here is a picture of one of the ferry's passing us.

Little Miss Independent Hailey had to get down and stand by herself so we found a hole for her to look thru to see the water

She eventually decided that it was a better view on Daddy's shoulders.

I think this was a shrimping boat in Galveston Bay.....the seagulls and other birds were just swarming the boat. As the boat was chugging along you could also see some of the dolphins following the boat.

Thanks for looking.....there will be lots more boring beach, pool pictures throughout the summer!