Camping at Shell Key Preserve!

So Chris & I were supposed to be in Costa Rica(for our honeymoon) from April 26th - May 2nd. But due to the economy we were unable to go. So we cancelled our trip and decided we go on our honeymoon another time. Chris granny & Papa gave us a weeks time share for our wedding gift so we will be able to use that any time up until June 2010.

So instead we decided that we would just take a long weekend and go camping. We recently discovered we enjoy camping. Well, Chris has been camping before but I haven't really. So Chris and I went down to Shell Key Preserve and camped Thursday, Friday, and came home Saturday afternoon. It was a great time! We fished all day and just hung out with each other. It was really nice & relaxing. We were the only ones in our immediate area that were camping on the island. There were some other folks camping down on the beach but where we were there was no one else. It was really nice!

We have a 14ft Jon Boat that we took from the Ft Desoto boat ramp to Shell Key Preserve. We loaded up the boat with our stuff and took off. We only had a few leaks, lol! We were taking on more water then I liked, apparently Chris thought the same thing but he didn't let me know that he was some what worried! We went to what we thought was the right island....but it just didn't look right so Chris called one of his friends and he told us which island it was. But before we left unloaded the boat and "patched" our leaks! ......our "patches" were the tails of some plastic/rubber artificial lures that Chris has. We had no other options so that was what we did!

See the little green tail! That was one of our plugs! Lol!!! So we made it to our island and then set up camp. ...Friday we went back to the boat ramp and went to the store, i forgot some stuff and there was a hardware store where Chris could get something to plug our holes. We had a few! =)

The weather was great during the day! Thursday night was nice, but really windy & cold! Friday night was absolutely miserable! It was hot, no breeze, and lots of bugs. The good thing about the breeze is that it keeps the bugs away! So Friday night was very sleepless! Saturday morning we decided that we couldn't handle another night like that so we fished all day Saturday and then packed it up and headed home Saturday afternoon. ---We didn't catch very much. Thursday night Chris went and fished off the beach and caught a couple of trout! Then I went down there with him and I caught 1 trout. Friday morning we went out fishing and caught another trout but other then that we didn't catch anything! Didn't matter, we still had a great time!!!

<--- My hubby cookin' me some trout!!!

So all in all we had a great weekend!!!