Saturday, September 27, 2008

Marco Island

After a day in West Palm Beach we drove to our destination, Marco Island.

Marco Island is located on the south-western side of Florida. We checked into our room and then decided to explore our vacation home.

This is the view from our balcony. Notice how empty the beach looks. We later learned that August and September were not prime time to travel to Florida. It was nice for us because beaches were empty, and there were no lines or traffic. What a difference from Southern California.
Sienna loves swimming and quickly discovered the pool.


We went down to check it out and decided to take a swim.

Sienna has been going under water, and here she is after being dunked by her daddy. We will have to post pictures of her underwater, but they are on the disposable water camera.

Later that day we took the boardwalk from our hotel to the beach.

It was very beautiful, and the gulf water was warm and calm, but . . .


This is what the beach was made of. Shells! It was great for looking and finding favorite shells, but not great for walking barefoot.


Sienna found a couple that she liked.

We walked until the sun went down and then on our way back to our hotel we noticed a little octopus.


Marco island was a perfect place to see all kinds of wildlife.

5 comments:

Mama and Papa Swenson said...

Showed dad your Post and he said maybe we need to go. Looks like a beautiful place, and your family seemed to fit right in. Love you always.

Anonymous said...

I love the photo of Steve and Sienna in the sunset. Too bad we couldn't have been there to take one of you and Steve kissing in the sunset!

AFC said...

We spend a week on Sanibel Island in February every year.. We always make the drive to Marco Island for day trips. It is so nice there! Lloks like you all had fun. Your little girl is adorable!

Caywoods said...

Wow, look at all that hair! I love how you put Sienna's hair up with the clips. What a cutie pie.

Willis Family said...

We would walk down to the main beach and park just down from the Marriot. We stayed in a house on Marco off of Wendall St. What a great little place, huh? Sooo different from Cali...warm, warm, water! Loved it! So jealous you were just there. We totally want to go back...next time try Naples...great beaches too!