Monday – We drive round the Bayou and Sally’s birthday

Today is Sally’s birthday, it was a beautiful morning, cool but very clear and still, the bayou was very still, saw a Bald Eagle fishing and several woodpeckers. We went to the local library and used the internet to web cam with the boys and phoned Helen. We talked to Emma and Ben as well, they are growing very fast and responding so well, it was lovely. We then toured the Bayou, on the inland side it is heavily forested, as we approach the sea it becomes dominated by the dunes. The whole area is developed with lots of condo’s and shops everywhere. Even where the sand spit is only a couple of hundred yards wide. It is a very big vacation area. But it is shoppers heaven. It is called The Emerald Coast and we found out why, when we went down to the beach the sea was green, I don’t know why, but it was. The sand was literally snow white and the water emerald green. It was beautiful. We came back across a big toll bridge. The trip round the bayou was more than 70 miles. We wanted to find a good seafood restaurant to celebrate Sally’s birthday, but we are camped about 10 miles from the big tourist centre and settled for a place called Perry’s Legendary Seafood and Steak’s, which was OK, but nothing special, so we are holding Sally’s birthday meal in reserve for when we find a really good restaurant.