Starfish

We went to Charleston to visit Nathan and Kelly the end of July and spent a lot of time at the beach. On the last day, Greta found a starfish on the beach. We all thought that was pretty cool and after showing it to all of the kids, we threw it back in the ocean. Greta was sad when we threw her starfish back in and wanted to find more. I told her it was pretty special to find a starfish alive on the beach and we may not find another one but I said we could go look. We ended up finding a tide pool full of starfish! We probably found at least 8 of them- all alive as well as a conch with the sea snail still alive. I've never seen so many starfish on a beach.

Here's some pictures of our starfish beach day! And that last picture with Marie? A minute later she had picked that starfish up and was running across the beach away from us with it! Poor starfish. He looked like he was mostly ok when I pried him out of her fingers while she screamed! I'm not sure if she wanted to keep the starfish or throw it back herself but she did not want to give it away!