Whatcha talkin bout Willis?: Swimming in the Atlantic!

VIRGINIA BEACH

Being on the East Coast I have gotten the opportunity to see and do a lot of things that I never thought I would, or at least not for a long long time. Some of the adventures we've gotten to do is play in Virginia Beach. My first experience at the Atlantic I saw DOLPHINS! We got there in the early evening and a few minutes later we saw like ten different fins come out of the water really close to shore! It was the neatest thing ever!!!!! Have you ever seen real dolphins in the real wild?!?! I HAVE! and it was AWESOME! Apparently the locals see em all the time, they like to hang out around these beaches.

These beaches are really clean and have really nice sand, so what'd we do?! We built a sand castle of course! But after all the hardwork, and hard play, Landon needed a break...he is IN FACT asleep in that chair. An entire day of playing on the beach can be pretty exhausting.

So, this ocean is REALLY fun to play in!! The waves are perfect size to body surf in, dive under and play in. The sand was nice, and the water was WARM! buuuuuut one BIG complaint I had was these stinkin little crabs! I kept stepping on em! The waves would mix the sand around so you couldn't see what you were stepping on until it was too late! All of a sudden your foot would hit something hard and immediately when it happened to me I would throw my body in the opposite direction and pretty much dunk myself cause I'd lift my feet as far off the sand as I could. I'm sure I looked ridiculous, but other than that....I don't think I've had more fun playing in an ocean in my entire life!

We caught one and put in our sand castle. He might look little, but he was TOUGH! He was on great defence and wouldn't ever lower his pinchers and would turn his body which ever direction the closest person was. Now can you see why I hated these sneaky little guys?!