Well this blog entry takes us to Hammonasset Beach on the Long Island Sound in southern Connecticut. This is our closest and largest beach only an hour and 15 minutes from Enfield. It is a lovely drive through beautiful rural new england towns....interesting side note, we passed a road on the way called Roast Meat Road. I lie to you not! I mean when people who live there give their address do you think people take them seriously??? Okay on to the days events and pics....
It was a beautiful day with air temps in the 70's (which is cool for us right now) and water temp of about 73 degrees. I love the above picture. People watching is sooooooo great at the beach and I love to watch children at play on the beach...so sweet!
We got there early and set up our spot. I laugh when E and I go to the beach because we are veterans. We bring all the gear...food, entertainment and what every smart beach goer knows a mallett! While others struggle to get that beach umbrella far enough in the sand not to blow away in the strong new england beach breeze, E and I make a few quick wacks with the mallett and that beach umbrella isn't going anywhere! A few embarrassing incidents of chasing our beach umbrella down the beach as it pumeled other beach goers on Cape Cod taught us that one!
Ahhhhhhhhh life is good! Notice those binoculars...they are great for "acting" like you are looking at wild life when you are really spying on folks out on the beach. Yea that is the voyeur in me. giggle
There really is nothing better than eating breakfast on the beach!!
Hey little birdie : )
The beach is located on a state park. The property is soooooo nice. They really do a great job of keeping it looking very clean and well manicured.
I love dune grass...it is so pretty.
Lots of little trails from the beach led to various areas of the park. 
They also have a great board walk going all the way down the beach with places like above to stop and "sit a spell". 
Hey E!!
We watched the news the night before so we knew that a storm would roll in at some point in the afternoon so we watched the skies for indication on when to leave.
The coast is dark sand with rocks...I always make note of this when I am on the East coast beaches because where I come from in the south our beaches are so much different. In the gulf the sand is sugar white and soft. Feels like confectioners sugar, so at some point I usually make the comment. "Ugh my feet hurt!!" lol
Okay how lucky are those people living in those houses!!
When we first arrived we almost had the beach to our selves....that did not last too long as the closer we got to noon the beach became full.
I do not know what these beach flowers are called. They look like little crabapples. They are so pretty and I have noticed them on almost every East Coast beach I have ever been to. They have prickly branches but have such beautiful fruit and blossoms.
That's me (kristi) swimming out in the ocean...having a great time....until......
I had a brush with the dreaded Jelly Fish. I felt something sting my leg so I brushed my arm along my leg in the water and that's when the damage was done and I was stung lightly on my arm. Thank god I didn't really get into the guy too much I think I just brushed him because it wasn't bad at all really. You know what the cure for a jelly fish sting is right????? Gotta pee on it. I swear , I am not making that up!!!
So as our day at the beach came to a close, we were so glad we got there early because right like clock work noon came and a lightening strike struck over the water and the life guards closed the beach. Some people were so mad "we just got here!" you could hear all along the beach. Well you gotta watch the weather when you plan to go to the beach people. We did and we had a great time getting all morning to bask in natures beach beauty.
Until the next adventure......
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