Amelia Island

I posted one picture of us on Amelia Island Beach yesterday... today a few more pictures from our visit:

crossing the dunes - looking south...

...looking north...

... looking east!

We drove to Peter's Point Beach Park (*great* recommendation by cousin Marty) - you could drive onto the beach at this location, but I think the sign indicated only Nassau County residents. We wanted to walk, so we parked and walked over the raised walkway access to the beach.

The beach and the waves were so beautiful.

The beach was very broad and hard packed -- great for walking.

I wish I could share the sounds of the surf and the feel of the breeze with you!

Same picture from yesterday's blog - now more in context.

We saw a pier from where we got onto the beach and made it our goal to walk to it. It was about 1.5 miles away, so we got a 3 mile walk - so good after sitting and driving for two days!

Under the pier

At the pier

Heading back south toward where the Jeep was parked.

 

We particularly wanted to come to Amelia Island so we could visit Patti's cousins Marty and Irene. They invited us for supper and we had a wonderful visit. So nice to catch up!

We also had brought some of Aunt Libby's boxes that I had had in our house in Coppell, which had been moved to the container in Virginia, nicely labeled with "To Marty". We unloaded the 3 boxes into the garage (Carl had had a nightmare that we forgot to unload them and only realized it as we were heading west across Florida -- Irene said her nightmare was that we would remember to unload them!).

I got a message from Irene this morning that there was something unexpected in one of the boxes:

Marty asked if we meant to include this! He added that so far, only a skin was found...

Ugh! I should have checked the boxes after taking them out of the container!

Many, many thanks to cousins Marty and Irene for the great recommendation of where to access the beach, and for a lovely dinner and visit, and for taking the boxes from Aunt Libby - even including the extra contents that I did not intend to be in there! My only regret is that we did not get a picture with them.