Friday, July 9, 2010

El Capitan State Beach Camping Trip

Our first camping trip of the summer... coming off the heels of 4th of July!
We headed to El Capitan State Beach just north of Santa Barbara.


Our tent - the SoulPad.






The view from the road by our tent.


We headed down to the beach and the kids found a cave. It wasn't deep, but they still had fun looking around.


We saw three dolphins.


Matt


Snack time...


getting ready for s'mores :)




Emma with her fire.


Our pad at night... the glowing orb... makes it very easy to find at night on the way back from the bathrooms!



On day 2, we spent a few hours down at the beach. The kids played in the water and we explored the shoreline.


There were many piles of mollusks. I wasn't sure if they were alive or not...


While walking on the beach we found a couple of clear jelly blobs. Ben brought one home.


another blob that Heeli and Sarah found...


We couldn't figure out what it could be exactly... until... we found this. It is a red striped sea nettle.


It was a great short camping trip. The beach is nice... but cold and windy... I much prefer the mountains :)

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