Sunday, May 19, 2024
Hope everyone has had a great two weeks since last we posted. The first week, 5/5-5/11 we enjoyed our time spent with Randy and Debra catching up on all things. We helped each other on various projects, cooked and shared good meals and great family time. We were blessed to be able to attend our great-nephew’s infant dedication last Sunday and afterwards enjoyed a meal and afternoon of family time. We also planned and prepared for our camping (glamping) trip to Huntington Beach State Park. HBSP is just a few miles south of Myrtle Beach and not as crowded. None of us had ever visited this state park and we all loved our time at Huntington Beach this past week. Highly recommend this park. It was just a short walk from our RVs to the beach. The sunrises and beach walks were great! Some guests were enjoying the ocean waves, but we decided it was just a little too cool for us.
Within about an hour of our arrival, we had located and were enjoying the ice cream shop. Ice cream is a good lunch, right? We also visited the Atalaya Castle on the park’s grounds. Take a look at the link. We did the self-guided tour and found it very interesting. We learned so much but know we would have learned even more on the guided tour.
We did an alligator tour that was also very educational and while on that tour saw in addition to the alligators many beautiful shore birds, some of which we had never seen before. This was a long hike but so worth it! Did you know that an alligator can live on one good meal each year. They usually eat more than that but in less-than-ideal circumstances they have survived 3 years with only one meal. We wouldn’t do well as alligators.
We also attended a turtle presentation at the Nature Center. We saw diamond back terrapins and watched them capture fiddler crabs for their dinner, along with seeing sea horses, box turtles, rays, alligator, and again lots of birds.
When we weren’t hiking or enjoying the nature at HBSP, we did some touristy things like playing 36 holes of miniature golf and eating some great seafood.
This trip was scheduled to celebrate Randy’s birthday and we certainly did enjoy the celebration. We are already planning for next year. Wonder if we could talk Randy into have more than one birthday each year? Until next post, praise and thank the Lord for all your blessings, and stay safe.
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