Burnswick, GA

When we got to Brunswick, we were in for an exciting surprise. We had been without technological luxuries for so long, that it had kind of become the norm. Imagine our joy when we were able to hook up to cable and the tv's channel search turned out this...

And there was internet at our site that allowed me to do this...

Needless to say, we spent some time inside catching up on shows, the blog, and general internet tasks. And thank god for that indoor entertainment because we couldn't be outside. In Carrabelle we were introduced to noseeums. In Lamont we learned that they were small enough to get through our screens. In Brunswick we could literally not be outside for more that a minute or two without lots of itchy consequences. And, since they can get through the screens, we couldn't even open the windows. Even on drives in the car, we had to keep the windows up because when we stopped at lights, the effers would swarm the car.

In addition to the noseeums, we had also come across a lot of ticks. Holden got one in Lamont, Judah got one in Lake City, and Mark got one here. He woke up our second day to one burrowed in the skin under the waistband of his pants. I had to pry it out. It was super pleasant. I have some tick related post traumatic stress from my teen years, and seeing them at all, much less embedded and engorged is a real trigger for me, yet, somehow, I ended up being the one who removed and disposed of all three. Lucky me.  

So, anyways, we spent a lot of time inside. The kids ran around in their unders and begged for food like baby birds...it's their new thing. 

And then trashed the place repeatedly.

One of the days we were here was really hot--like 85*. Mark decided to brave the bugs and wash the RV. Judah helped him.

I made Beans stay inside. He is like candy to those tiny bastards.

Mark was only able to finish half of the RV before he had to give up and come in for some relief. So now our RVs super clean...on one side.

After two days of being cooped up, we needed to figure out something to do. Mark found an island with a driftwood beach, so we decided to check it out. The bugs were not nearly as bad here, and the beach was amazing! Not only was it covered with beautiful driftwood trees, 

...it was also home to a bunch of tide pools! We had finally found some! 

And living in them were real, live sea anemone! It was pretty exciting.

We played on the beach for awhile.

Judah followed a track way.

And then proceeded to drum on every visible surface.

We came across this. It looks like a jelly fish, but some other people on the beach said they didn't think it was because of that hard spiky stuff in the middle. They thought it was something's mouth. That seems pretty unlikely to me. Anybody have any ideas? Kate?

After awhile we left the beach and walked back to our car.

Then we went home and got ready to leave the next morning.