The Giles Family: Harbor Island, SC 2010

Here it is the official beach post. This year the Giles clan headed to Harbor Island, SC which is about 90 min from HHI, SC and about as remote a place you can find. The entire "island" was the neighborhood in which we stayed. There is no cable, no internet (well none at our house) and no grocery store. There is a little pizza place, a little "grocery" store and one restaurant...which by the way was awesome. There was a lot of nature...dolphins, birds ( the island is a bird sanctuary), deer, crabs and of course mosquitoes. It was a sad trip....my SIL, BIL and niece couldn't make it and it isn't our usual summer destination. I had grown quite familiar with the Gulf Coast and we had our fave little places to go out. The trip was still relaxing and fun...but different. the drive is certainly better and on the way there we stopped in Statesboro to show Parker GA Southern and have lunch at one of our fave old places. So all in all a good time. We spent our mornings on the beach...until I could no longer tolerate the INSANE heat (heat indexes of 105-110 with 70% humidity) and then we'd head in for lunch and head down to the pool. Parker "surfed" for the first time and swam in the ocean like a fish. We played Yahtzee, Go Fish and UNO Moo every night and generally was on no schedule....aaaahhh.

Us at Dingus Magees...for those non GASOU people..this is a restaurant frequented by those in the Greek community at Southern and a bar at night where many a drink was had.

Apparently Parker doesn't like the smell of old cigarettes and beer.

Flying a kite all by himself....(that is not the house we stayed in BTW)

Body surfing in the waves. Tony took him out into the big waves and he rode them all the way in and LOVED it!

The beach.

Our Family

Parker was too short to climb the lighthouse...but we convinced the lady to let him do it anyway....he wanted to climb that thing more than anything...and he did it! 186 steps each way!

Daddy and Parker at the start of their climb

All the boys at the top...Parker is that little red dot all the way to the right :)

Parker standing outside the lighthouse

The boys playing Go Fish....Parker won...as usual

An annual picture that I take...Parker 2010

Parker's new favorite thing....shrimp boats. They come really close to shore here and they usually have a trail of dolphins behind them...pretty cool

Parker discovered drinking out of cans. He said he likes to drink out of cans because "makes me feel like a grown-up" please don't grow up too fast little boy