pretty shots

These are taken from my dad's pictures of our camping trip - they were taken right around Kalaloch Beach

*some nice shots of the week - my lovely parents, my mom has been coming to Kalaloch since she was a little girl and I can guarantee that we will continue the tradition with Brigitta and any future children.

Birthday Breakfast

I celebrated my 31st birthday (ah!) while we were camping, so as a treat we all walked up to the Kalaloch Lodge and had a delicious breakfast.

Here is Brigitta enjoying her mountains of food. Please note - this was ordered off the children's menu.

The whole family went camping this year, this hasn't happened in like 20 years, I think we figured out. Nice pic!

Angelina and Anthony posing by the lodge sign.

Our breakfast was delicious - the last time we ate at the lodge, I think I was turning 8 or 9 and we went up to also celebrate my birthday. Thank you to the wonderful folks also eating at the lodge that morning - I'm sure we were smelling lovely!

Kalaloch River

There is a fresh water river that flows into the ocean at Kalaloch Beach - the Kalaloch River. Growing up, we would always play at the river, because we could rinse the salt water off our bodies after jumping waves and it was more fun to explore without the icy cold waves crashing down on you.

A shot of the river - we were amazed at how different the river looked this year. Every year, we are excited to see how different the beach looks based off the storms from the winter. Will there be lots of driftwood, how will the curve of the river change, etc.? This year, there was hardly any driftwood for us to take for our campfires, the river's direction had definitely changed and at high tide - the water was definitely coming up on the beach higher and higher.

The girls playing in the river and building sandcastles

Throwing rocks with Uncle Andrew

Beach Four - tidepool Walk

Every time we go camping, we always go to Beach 4 for a tidepool walk at one of the low tides. This year the low tide happened to be in the early afternoon rather than the early morning, so we made more of a trip out of it.

Anthony climbing on the rocks

Andrew taking Daisy and running along the beach

Daisy checking out the tidepool life

Pretty gorgeous shot, don't you think?