Pensacola Beach Vacation Day #5

 Welcome back to our Vacation!  Day 5 was a day of excursions!  After a few relaxing days we decided to have a full day of visiting some interesting places! 

We left our condo mid- morning and headed to Gulf Shores, Alabama.  Darryl and I have always wanted to visit Gulf Shores and, considering that we were technically 45 minutes away, we wanted to spend the day there! Now, in reality, it takes longer to get there because the main bridge to Pensacola is still shut down due to damage from a hurricane last year but it wasn't  "that" bad.  

Gulf Shores is beautiful.  We started with finding a great place for lunch. King Neptune's Seafood was amazing.  Actually, Josh wanted Domino's Pizza and Nate wanted McDonald's so Darryl and I enjoyed a fabulous meal by ourselves sitting on the patio of the restaurant.  The kids ate in the car (which was right next to us HA) and  enjoyed themselves very much! 

Once done with dinner we decided to take a drive to check out all of the houses on the beach.  Once we were done exploring, we found an amazing beach to stick our sand chairs and enjoy the ocean! 

The waves were amazing!  And the sand?  Oh my goodness.  It was like walking in flour.  

Once we left the beach, we stopped at the pier.  This was such a great find because one of the things Nate wanted to do was go out on the pier in Pensacola but it was closed due to damage from that same hurricane last year.  Well, this one made up for it! 

A fisherman had caught a sting ray.  It was pretty cool to see . .. and then they butchered it.  Nate was pretty intrigued by it all. 

 It's hard to see but there are sharks in this photo.  We watched some fisherman fishing off the pier and the sharks were circling.  Several times, someone would go to pull a fish out of the water and the shark would jump up and take their catch!  It was pretty cool 

Nate did not want to leave the pier!!  I could have spent an entire day just watching the fish! 

We did finally head back to Pensacola Beach after an amazing day away.   We made one final stop for dinner.  We were craving Mexican food so we search for what was "near us" as we were traveling home and found a place called Mariachi's Mexican Food and it was amazing!  Oh my goodness.  It is on our "visit again" list!