Beach trip on Friday the 13th

I planned this trip over 10 months ago, a beach trip for the Spousal Unit's birthday.   This is not any beach, but Miramar at Sandestin, where the water is clear and the sand is like sugar!

We got a late start Thursday night, with me tossing the necessities into the car:  cool cabanas, chairs, wagon, yeti with already made Rita, and two CPAP machines!

For us to be old timers at this, you would think we would be more prepared!  No beach bag, no beach towel, no sun screen, limited snacks, but plenty of Ritas!

As soon as you top the slight hill on the board walk, you can smell the salt air.  When you reach the crest, you get the sight you have been waiting for all winter, that emerald green and blue water!  Yes!  BEACH!

We pick our spot, and pull out the two cool cabanas.   It's been a while!  One canopy is brand new, a replacement for one stolen in Fort Myers last summer.  We almost forgot how easy the Set up was.  Chairs were in place in no time!

In an instant, I was bird watching  from my favorite perch, beach chair in the shade!  First sighting was an orange crusted strut butt.  That ole gal was giving it her all in her attempts to get her umbrella anchored in the sand.  The Spousal Unit has a sharper eye, noting that one of the girls in this particular covey of birds was the niece of one of her high school classmates.  How women are able to keep up with all that is beyond me!

A little boy and his dad were sneaking up very slowly and quietly.   He whispered to us "I'm gonna catch me one of those birds, but you have to be very quiet....".  His dad had beer in hand.  I told him, "hey, no drinking while on the hunt!"

All around us were these coveys of women!  The first one we spotted had that familiar face in it.  The one behind us, was a bachelorette trip, all in their 40's.  One was a recent widow, and the others were trying to spot her a prize!  We overheard them making up commentary about the events occurring around them.  We were doing the same!

This one woman had on this one piece skin tight onesie!  That suit was from head to toe!  Then she came out with this cape!  Her onesie reminded me of those beach blankets that doesn't let the sand come through!  With the cape, she could have quickly become a beach kite!

It's funny to watch these birds use up a whole spray can of sun screen in just four squirts!  The rest becomes airborne and heads down wind!  The gal with the vaping habit had a strange taste in flavors that we all got to smell down wind!

The young bucks spent the day getting up their courage through cans of beer.  They decided they would all succeed or all go down in a ball of flames with an attempted hit on one of the many coneys around them.  Crash and burn they did!

I think all the women over 40 were on sensory alert overload.  They all spotted the one girl that had way too much to drink, being cared for by some guy she had just met today.  We got a recap of her day from the bachelorette party that had been measuring her up all day!  We are goimg to meet up with them tomorrow to add another chapter to "a day at the beach"!

Stay tuned......