Our Tradition Continues!

I was very happy that we were able to keep our tradition and go out scalloping for the 4th of July. The weather turned out great and the seas couldn't have been any calmer! The scallops, however, were not as thick this year as they have been before but that didn't stop us from having fun. Every time the kids go they get better and better at snorkeling. Both Miles and Shelbie had a great eye and could spot the scallops even before I could some times. Miles was able to dive down and get a couple all by himself and we were so proud of him.
Here's the cooler of Scallops right before we started to clean them.

Poor Coral started to get a little to much sun so we put one of our adult swim shirts on her. She looked so funny but didn't seem to mind to much. For the rest of the trip we started to call her"E.T." She is really a good sport!

Shelbie and Coral hanging out on the front of the boat while we were anchored up and searching for scallops. They were so cute sitting there just looking out on the water.

Ok, there's a short and some what sad story that goes along with these two pictures.

One of the couple that we invited on the boat with us wanted to give pole spearfishing a try so we told him to look for a mullet fish cause you can eat those. Well he did a good job spearing a fish but it didn't turn out to be a mullet. It was actually a fish that you really don't want to eat, but sad to say he was good and injured and wasn't going to survive. This gave Grant an idea to let the kids try out there spearfishing skills on the all ready dying fish. I know this sounds really cruel but the kids were so excited to get to spear the fish on there own, mostly, and hopefully we were able to put him out of his misery a little quicker. So, the picture above and below is Miles and Shelbie spearing their first fish. Sorry little fishy you sacrificed your life for our children's entertainment and spearfishing enjoyment!