Late August beach visit

Last Thursday, while Lisa was away, I thought the girls would enjoy attending a sea turtle nest excavation on Atlantic Beach in the late afternoon. I thought that if I didn't bring their bathing suits, they wouldn't go into the water. It started off promising, but went from wet toes to wet ankles to wet knees quickly, ending with the girls being practically sucked into the surf (the waves were starting to get big from Hurricane Bill). Then they stripped when I asked them to wash their legs off in the public shower, and they rode home sans vetements in their car seats. The first photo is the nest excavation - they never made it that far down the beach.