September 3, 2012 - Camping at Bahia Honda - Leaving

The third day, we packed up in the morning after breakfast and headed out.  But, before we headed out, I went around the cove and took some shots of the fish in the water in front of our campsite.  There was a school of feeder fish, so a couple of barracudas came out to feed.  That was neat!

September 2, 2012 - Camping at Bahia Honda - Day 2

The next day we went to the Atlantic side to swim and then later we walked to the bridge to watch the sunset from the bridge.  Again, Jason and I took turns with Ashlyn.  Jason even took her into their store and got her ice cream.  Felt kind of bad she didn't get to swim, especially since she loves swimming so much.  It was a beautiful, sunny day and we all got kind of burnt, especially Kaylyn!  Bought some aloe and put it in the cooler, so after our showers, I put it on her burn to ease it.  We took the nature trail walk that lead out to the beach further down and then we kept walking further along the beach.  It got really nice the further we went and we found a lot of empty conch shells and some other cool things.  The kids even saw an iguana in a tree.  When we went to the bridge later that evening, we saw a school of feeder fish that made the water look like it was muddy in the area where they were.  We saw what we thought to possibly be reef sharks going after them and later saw a huge sting ray in the water below.  Kind of neat!

September 1, 2012 Camping at Bahia Honda - Day 1

We went camping with the Sprinkle family again at Bahia Honda in the Keys.  It was a lot of fun again!  We got one of the campsites we got last time, so the kids got to explore the cove in front of our campsite for critters all the time.  They really enjoy this!  The first day was mostly travel and then setup, but then we headed over to the gulf side for swimming before it stormed.  Ashlyn couldn't get her ear wet, so Jason and I took turns with her when we were down at the beaches.  It was kind of hot for camping, but there was rain each night to cool it off a little and we had bought some mega fans for our tent (took 8 D batteries each).  The mosquitoes and noseeums were bad though, and no matter which bug spray we used, it didn't help much.  To make things easy we cooked burgers and hot dogs both nights.