Camping At The Beach

As a child my grandparents would take me to Ocean City, MD every year. I loved it! Now, with our children, we try to take the trip each year to carry on the tradition.

The best time to go is before the summer season starts. There are no other people on the beach and very few, other than those who actually live there, in town. My favorite reason, however, is that the shells washed in from winter storms are still hanging out, waiting to be found.

The children had a lot of fun checking out the beach and the waves. The girls played 'chicken' with the waves and at one point, Sissy fell in. She laughed for a very long time about it! Little Man didn't want to play with the waves, he was more interested in getting the sand out of his sandals.


We stayed at a campground that I found about six years ago. Fort Whaley is lots of fun and very inexpensive! Can you guess the theme of this campground from the photo?

Another of my favorite activities at the beach is to visit Assateague Island. There are wild ponies that live there along with lots of other native wildlife. Sometimes you can drive along and the ponies are just walking beside you, eating the grass at the side of the road. We weren't that lucky this year. The only ponies that we saw were way out in the marsh.

We always go to the visitors center to see the films that they show about the island. Here are Curly and Little Man checking out the critters in the touch tank.
 

This was the first year for the toddlers to go camping. Sissy has gone several times and was excited for the little ones.

 

They were not quite sure what to do with that campfire. It took some time but they finally decided that they liked it. Cooking marshmallows was on our list of things to do. Everyone tried one and then thought that they were better straight from the bag. Mostly the campfire was just for show, we didn't use it for cooking this year.

We made the trip easy with meals out.....

all except breakfast....

and sometimes lunch.