the beach at low tide

Should I clarify that the beach is not crowded?!?!  

That's Isaac digging for hermit crabs.  At low tide and with tide pools everywhere there are approximately 100 different kinds of marine life available to catch and corral and torture.  

These girls along with some other friends on the beach started an aquarium!  If you look closely you can see a live starfish in Julianna's bucket.  They dug out a large shallow pool and filled it with everything imaginable - hermit crabs, sand crabs, clams, sea snails, star fish, and a number of things that I could not identify!

John Paul on the beach catching hermit crabs is hard to explain.  It's an amazingly loud, excitable, wet and sandy energy that results in plenty of captured marine critters (and an early death-by-fingers for more than a few!)

And sometimes we just walk down to the beach and drink our mango-pineapple fruit shakes and enjoy another minute of vacation.