Camping at Bellows AFB

Last weekend we had a great camping trip.  Friends of ours sponsored us onto Bellows Air Force Base to their campground.  The campground is across the street from the beach, so the first night there the kids went out hunting for little crabs at the beach.  Cole caught one!

The campsites were nestled inbetween ironwood trees.  They are tall, skinny trees with really long, fine needles.  It was nice in there since it stayed reasonably shady and the tents didn't heat up as much.  

Here is the gorgeous beach that was right across the road from the campsites.  Isn't this beautiful!  The sands on the windward side where we were are very fine so it is almost silky when you walk on it.  We did see a few Portugese man-of-war jellyfish on the beach but nobody got stung all weekend.  

We spent Saturday morning playing at the beach.  The sand is great for digging and there were nice waves for bodyboarding.  It was very shallow pretty far out so it was great for the kids too.  

Here is Cole hanging with the girls from camp.  There were about a dozen kids altogether in the group of people we camped with, so the kids were rarely at a loss for what to do with themselves.  

The boys playing back at camp...

Bellows was great, nice campsites which were pretty quiet at night, hot showers (yay!), a minimart across the street (is it really camping when you can run across the street to get ice and beer?), and they also had a playground and mini golf just down the road too.  So hopefully we'll get a chance to camp there again sometime!