Tuesday morning Sandcasting was a great activity for the sleepy in our group. An entertaining, retired art teacher taught us the art of pouring cement over the design we made of shells and toys in a sand "frame", also of our making. Even Opa got into the act and made a very nice wall-hanging. We are also bringing back sand paintings of various designs...we all got into it!
Opa getting into the sand painting thing..I needed to be the chronicler , but I did do a sand painting!
After another stelar lunch (three meals a day are going to kill me...)
We headed to the Lady Jane Shrimp Trawler. (sounds so "Suthen")
The captain showed us how they drag a conical neat just the right speed and depth on the canal floor to collect a myriad of fish, shrimp, blue crabs, ocean trout, puffish, lance fish (we can't remember it's true name.), flounder (it's eyes migrate to be only on one side of him in the first two days...clever) horseshoe crabs, small sharks, spadefish, and on and on... The captain's son pulled the net in and released the purse on the table on the boat. You have NEVER seen children have so much fun. They were told not to put their fingers into the mass of fish for fear of "losing a finger"...clearly viewed as a "suggestion rather than a law...
caught by a crab!
Even Opa admired the puff fish
Then we ate the shrimp
and we were happy.
This was all BEFORE we went out at 9PM to stalk the Mama turtles ...
WE WILL catch up on telling our tales...so much going on...only 24 hours per day.
What's a body to do???
I just wrote a really long comment that google erased when I hit publish.
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ANYWAY....
You guys look like you are having a blast, and this blog makes us really happy to see the Larkin/Hollihan?lower clan rocking it out on the East Coast.
Have a safe and fast drive back!
(Stay away from Texas, it gets strange down there!)
-Uncle Mike
That isn't supposed to be a ? between Hollihan and Lower.
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The problem was my fat fingers hitting the wrong keys.
Just wanted to avoid any confusion.
I was getting disparate after a two day no blog post drought, glad to hear everything is going so well and I feel like I want to move to Georgia, live near the ocean, eat seafood all day long and go on ghost adventures at night and make art. It's fun reading about our fun. Love ya ~~~C
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