Friday & Saturday 11 + 12 May

This is just like the 2 horseshoe crabs Ben caught

Friday was a beach day - hot and sunny with a strengthening sea breeze in the afternoon.  The apartment has a beach trolley to transport folding chairs/towels/umbrella etc - very different from our Croyde holidays when Ben acted as a mule carrying all this - often in 2 trips!

Ben took his fishing rod and spent most of the day in the sea up to his waist fishing
 - he eventually called it a day when the waves were getting bigger and bigger.  He caught a couple of whiting which were returned to the sea.   The other catch was extraordinary – 2 horseshoe crabs mating.  He managed to disentangle them from his hook and returned them to the water where they serenely propelled themselves side by side out to sea.  I have since looked them up on the internet and they are an endangered species so we will contact the local marine ecological people to let them know about it.

In the evening we ate out at a local Greek restaurant - we weren't over impressed with it.

Liz dodging the fairway watering system

On Saturday we played golf on the Galleon/Clipper combination at Shipyard Golf Course.  Again the course was very pretty but not in such as good condition as the others we have played.  We were joined for most of our game by 'Don' an American post office man who caught us up.  He had already played 18 holes but he was a bit younger than us!  We were caught up by another solo golfer with 3 or 4 holes to play- we waved him up to see if he wanted to join us or play through.  To our surprise it was Mike McGrail from Lutterworth Golf Club who was instrumental in our decision to come to Hilton Head.

We both liked this golf course property

When we were having a drink afterwards  Mike gave us some more tips for shops and places to eat.  We hope to be able to arrange a game with Mike & June before we return.  We visited 'Harris Teeter' food shop which was full of fresh produce and streets more attractive than Walmart.  Having topped up salad supplies we returned to have a BBQ.

More wild life - fortunately no sign of mum!