I think we were both secretly a little nervous about seeing a bit of oil, especially as we saw patches of UID brown stuff on a few of the beaches along the way. Fortunately, the beaches on the island were beautiful. Part of the island is a nature preserve, so it was great to see that everything was clean.
The water was exceptionally warm, especially compared to the previous weekend's beach trip to St. Augustine on the 'first coast' as they like to call it. The water was about 70 with huge waves (well, north Florida huge). At St. George, the water must have been at least 85, if not warmer. It was almost uncomfortably hot. Anyway, we did see some wildlife: two types of jellyfish, horseshoe crab, your standard tiny beach crabs, porpoises (yay!), a large blue crab, a couple of little yellow-finned barb-like fish that tried to school with us, and all your standard beach birds.
It was a pretty good day, I have to admit :)
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