Cemetery Photos

Please don't think I'm weird or disrespectful, but one of my favorite places in town is the cemetery. 

This cememtery dates prior to 1831. 

It's the final resting place for soldiers of the confederacy and victims of shipwrecks and yellow fever. 

It's so beautiful and haunting and magical. 

I love the way the light comes through the trees and moss.

This place takes my breath away.

Around Town

After spending a long day on the beach, we'd get all cleaned up and head into town for a walk and dinner.  I grew up in a small town and really love and appreciate colorful little towns with lots of character.  This town is definitely no exception.  This was our fouth year vacationing here, and it's been so fun to see this town change and grow from year to year. 

It's a quiet little fishing (shrimp and oyster) village, rich in history and warm in hospitality.  The people are wonderful and crazy and interesting.  The town is filled with cute little shops/boutiques, ice cream parlors, pet stores, book stores, wine shops and some of the best restaurants I've ever eaten in.  Every year we revisit our favorite restaurants and make sure to try out a few new ones.  We're rarely disappointed (how could we be eating fresh seafood?) and always amused.  Every dining experience is just that...an experience. 

I was in love with this shrimp boat. 

It was just so rugged yet sturdy.

I don't think this oyster boat is sea-worthy anymore.

There's a gorgeous old church on the way to the market.

The streets are lined with little shops and boutiques.

And the town is filled with colorful characters!

Even the post office is pretty.

There are old plantation homes with giant wrap-around porches.

Lawns filled with trees that were made for climbing.

Gazebos in the park.

And on the water.

Needless to say, we like it here.

(Mally's first ever elevator ride!)

And when we've done enough site seeing and worked up our appetites, it's time to EAT!

Two dozen oysters...STAT!

Mmmm...

And at the end of our trip (after one week), our oyster count was as follows:

Sara - 90 oysters

Ryan - 96 oysters

Stay tuned, my next post is about my very favorite place in town.  It needed it's own entire post!

Fishing on the Beach

As you all know by now, my husband is obsessed with fishing.  And that might be the understatment of the year.  The entire reason we even took this vacation was to fish.  (For tarpon.  And it was awesome.  Pictures will be posted later this week.)

So you won't be surprised to find out that while I was sitting on the beach, reading a book, drinking a Corona and watching the waves...Ryan was fishing.

He only brought about 9 fishing poles (sorry..."rods and reels" - I can't ever get that right).

He stopped at the local island bait shop and picked up some shrimp.

I thought they looked rather delicious.

Hello boys!

And he plopped down to fish.

This is about the only time Ryan can actually sit still on the beach. 

Mally was absolutely fascinated. 

She loves fishing.

I know this because she told me.

First catch - a little sting ray!

Stingrays are cool!

Mally and I were very impressed.

We wanted to catch a stingray too.

But all we got was this little whiting.

Boring.

After about 10 minutes of sitting down, Ryan had to move. 

He grabbed his fly rod and headed out in the sea.

Practice casting in anticipation of the big tarpon adventure to come.

10 and 2. 

10 and 2.

Again, we were impressed.

It was a good day.

*Ryan also caught a baby shark.  It so cute!  It had baby shark teeth.  And baby shark fins.  I really wanted to take it home and put it in my aquarium.  But we let it go.  I didn't even get a picture.  :(