Wednesday Walk - A Day at the Beach

Here is a day at the beach for this #wednesdaywalk by @tattoodjay

Finally we got some hot summer days here and whenever it hit 90F we are able to go to our favorite beach.

This is Illinois Beach State Park somewhat far up north. We have to trek through a trail to bring all our stuff to the beach.

It was a bit cumbersome driving the stroller in the sand while carrying a cooler and an umbrella. But at least we could stop and rest to look at these strange purple flowers.

The beach sand is even allowing wild roses to grow. They are already showing rose hips.

This is the remains of an old coast guard outpost.

On the trail there are quite a few random ponds and wetlands. This one was loaded full of this grass that is quite sharp if you try and walk through it.

Finally we can see the water. Now that we are sweating like crazy it will be nice to jump in the lake.

But first we have to setup the stuff.

My daughter really loves playing in the sand and collecting rocks.

I showed her a few ways to make rock art. Now she is sticking various rocks into the sand as monoliths.

Now to test out the shovel and bucket in some wet sand. She hasn't quite mastered the art of sand castle building yet.

Finally we all took a few swims and ate lunch and then had to trek back all the way to the car with all the stuff. I'm hoping there will still be some hot day's left this year to go back again.

That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)