Walking on Sunshine

Does that title get you singing?   I'm walking on sunshine......oh oh.....

Well.....that's what is happening here at the beach!

How lucky is that?

Standing on the deck this beautiful morning, looking to the left, you can see the bay.  

To the right is the ocean 

And, just across the road stands this pond

Which, at night, brings the tune "Jeremiah was a bullfrog"  to mind, as the croaking gets SO loud, I could hear it through the bedroom door!    

There's been a lot of entertainment already:

There was the making of the donuts:

Of course....they were delicious!

And leave it to Aunt Amy to bring some surprise fun:  An inflatable bowling set which is that and so much more:

Now, how's that for fun?

The beach access is relatively close, but just a bit more of a challenge than I was used to.   The town of Duck is undergoing a beach renovation project, and, luckily (I think), our development section has been completed. But our gravel road does not lead to a wooden deck access as we are used to.

requiring us to climb up the soft sand

Leading to an extremely HIGH dune!

resulting in the longest beach front I've ever seen, other than one we visited in California many years ago.  

Far in the distance you can see our blue beach tent.  As I told Marty, the house might be significantly closer to the beach access, but the distance, on sand, to the beach front,  is certainly the furthest that we've ever had to hike! 

But that didn't keep us from enjoying the day!

The water was a bit chilly for me, but it didn't keep the rest of the gang from enjoying it.

Marty tried his hand at some morning fishing with no success, blaming the beach project on his lack of success, stating that the "channel" that had run along the shore was now gone.  I reminded him that he never caught any fish in that channel anyway.  And, as if to taunt him, as he relaxed under the canopy, we all watched an osprey dive straight down into the water, directly in front of us, and come out with a large shiny fish!  

So, apparently the channel theory has been disproved.

The ongoing beach project certainly offers some interesting views: 

But it hasn't been distracting, and all of that activity hasn't kept the dolphins away as we could see schools of them jumping in the distance.

We had a delightful evening, with plenty of in-house entertainment:

How could you NOT have fun with all of this excitement in the house?

Especially with the king of selfies amongst us.

It just doesn't get much better than this!