Not to worry, I knew of another beach just down the road. I usually call it "Baby Beach" so of course the kids have refused to go the last few years. At high tide, there is no beach at all, the ocean right up to the retaining wall, but today we were in luck. Low tide and still going out.
I took this pic of one fo the rocks as we clambered down to the beach:
First some jumping jacks to warm up. Actually, you know how when you tell kids you want to take their pictures and they just stand there like soldiers? So I said, "How about some jumping jacks?" LOL
Here we are cavorting, courtesy of the ten second timer:
Peko is over his water phobia, or maybe because there were no waves here:
This was pretty funny when he stole Willow's sand shovel:
Everyone's wet here-the water was bone chilling cold. I couldn't make it over knee deep without my ankles going numb.
This is a wild sweet pea growing on the rocks:
On the way out, we took a cruise by Fort William Henry. The coast is full of these old forts dating to colonial times:
