Best Road Trip Ever - Day 7

I *planned* to add our pictures from today's adventures (taken with a disposable water camera), but they didn't really turn out to be usable. Today we headed to Shell Island to snorkel and collect seashells. We had a tasty donut breakfast, then headed east past Panama City, boarded a boat, then rode out to the island. I didn't get my good camera out much because it was really windy, and I didn't want to mess up the camera with salty, wet wind. We had a great spot for practicing snorkeling -- it was a little cove by the jetty. It was shallow, the water was clear (if there weren't a lot of people in it), and there were no waves. We saw about a dozen varieties of fish, and some of them were yellow or electric blue. Once we headed around the beach to the ocean to snorkel, it wasn't as much fun. The wind and waves were mighty and it made it difficult for the kids to get far enough out to the calmer part of the reef. Nonetheless, it was a sandcastle-building and getting-in-the-water kind of a day. After a picnic lunch, we headed back to the mainland. We had some chill-out time at the cottage, then went to Rosemary Beach's village for a delightful dinner of tapas -- sharing with the kids the fun of ordering one bite at a time.