An unusual day at Edmonds Beach!

Josiah was so ready for a day at the beach! This is one of his favorite things to do. I had to take this picture of his shirt & muscles. It was too cute. I couldn't resist.

When we arrived to Edmonds Beach, we noticed that most of the water was missing. The tide was extremely low & we wondered why. It was the strangest sight. We met a man on the beach who said that once a decade the moon is on the opposite side of Seattle. Well, that day was today. This caused a negative 3.8 tide. He & his family came to the beach today specifically just to see it.

The above picture is normally covered in water. It is actually the deeper area that scubadivers normally swim in. Well, we were walking on it today.

We took advantage of all of the extra sand we aren't used to & went kite flying. Josiah was so excited to bring his lizard kite to the beach. It was super windy & his kite went higher than it has ever gone before. He kept screaming about how high it was. He was so excited!!!

Of course we brought his wonderful sand toys to the beach for some digging & sand castle building. But first, we needed to explore some.

We did some exploring underneath the Edmonds ferry bridge. Everyone was walking under this bridge because you normally can't. It is normally filled to the top with water.

We came upon all sorts of sea creatures. Josiah was thrilled to see his first real starfish. This first one we found was HUGE! The center was bigger than Dustin's hand. It was beautiful. Josiah was so excited to touch it.

Then we found two smaller starfish hanging around. After looking around for a few minutes we noticed that starfish were everywhere.

Here, there were two starfish & a live crab hanging out together. The guys decided to see what the crab would do if they put a stick into his claws. Josiah was fascinated.

By the end of our exploring, we had seen starfish, crabs, sea anenome, sea cucumbers, a huge dead fish & lots of seaweed. Josiah thought this was the coolest beach trip ever.

After a few minutes of walking, for some reason Josiah got a burst of energy & decided to take off & run down the area of the beach that is normally covered in water. Well, you can probably guess what happened...

He fell down flat on his face.

He was covered in wet sand. Poor little guy had sand in his mouth, eyes, nose, ears & all over his body. He was miserable. Our fun trip to the beach was brought to an upbrupt end. He was tired, hungry & ready to get in the tub.

This was the perfect ending to a most unusual day at Edmonds Beach!