Matagorda Beach

When Brett and Jared started feeling better after getting their tonsils out, we headed for the beach. We were also trying to schedule a trip before I had the skin cancer removed from my shin. We decided to try another beach rather than the usual because we heard they had better facilities like showers and restrooms. Freeport beach only has the portable toilets and they can be gross. So we drove a bit further south and went to Matagorda Beach. It turned out that they did have better facilities, but not anywhere near the beach where we could drive out. In fact, the facilities were not even that close to the beach. So, we went to the area where we could drive on the beach and it was pretty much the same as Freeport. We had a good time like at Freeport, we just had to drive longer to get there.

I am helping Ryan on the boogie board. One of the downsides of the beaches in our area is the waves are small, too small to surf or boogie board. The sea was pretty calm that day so we mostly just swam and floated around on the boogie boards.

Ryan coming in after doing some floating around on the boogie board.

Lori showing us how to skim. It is much harder than Robbie makes it look on his site. I have given-up trying because I need to work to support my family and cannot afford any broken bones. Lori at least could skim without falling.

Jared has figured out how to skim on his knees and was getting good at it.

Jared wiping out.

Brett adopting the knee skimming technique.

Brett getting read to take off on the skim board.

Ryan collecting sea shells.

Ryan playing in the water. I thought this picture was funny.

Another picture of Ryan playing in the water.

Brett, Jared and Lori out floating on the boogie boards. The waves were small.

Jared building his sand castle.

Brett building his sand castle.

Jared, Ryan and Brett playing at the beach.