A Little Bit Of Everything

Since today was our last day on Fripp, we decided to make the most of the day and do everything at least once.

Our day started out early, we had gotten a tip earlier in the week about seashell hunting on the tip of a point only accessible at low tide. We checked the tide tables, and low tide on Hunting Island was at 8:45am. It turned out to be somewhat of a wild goose chase. It was a very long walk out to the "point" and we didn't find the promised big shells. We did see some interesting sea life and it was a beautiful morning, so all was not wasted.

Here are some pictures of the sea life we encountered. We saw horseshoe crabs, hermit crabs, sea pork, birds, and many other little critters. We did find some bigger shells as well.

Low tide

Horseshoe crabs, they look very intimidating.

The beautiful blue crab, he is underwater, and hard to get a clear picture.


Our shell finds

We checked out some cabins on the remote side of Hunting Island. It looked like a deserted island, and it had some old hurricane damage.

We also got in trouble from the park ranger, since we were in the camping section of the island, and we only had a 20 minute pass. We were issued a warning ticket, they may never let us come back.

After heading back over to Fripp Island, we went to the marina to fill up the golf cart with gas. On our way back to the condo, we drove by one of the familiar alligator ponds. I had become an expert alligator spotter over the last week, and although we had never seen an alligator in this particular pond, I spied this one in the shade of a big tree.

I think he is bigger than the one guarding the 11th tee.

We went to the gift shop, and the kids got a gecko, a snake and a mermaid.

We also managed another dip in the pool, and the last visit to the beach. Then we finally conquered the BIG one.






We made our final evening golf cart tour driving around the island, looking at deer, hunting alligators, and enjoying the evening breeze. This time Danielle took the wheel.

We also got a close up of bambi.

At the end of the island was the perfect sunset picture spot over the water, I took a dozen pictures of the kids...this was the best one.

I thought I was tired a couple of days ago...