The Atlantic Ocean is Our Backyard

Now this is a view!

The house we're staying in on Rackliff Island backs right up to a beautiful rocky cove filled with cold Atlantic Ocean water. The water is clear and beautiful with a rocky ocean floor. The boys have had a blast playing in the water at both low and high tide.

We've found lots of crabs hiding under the sea kelp, tons of clam and mussel shells, snails and hermit crabs. We've even found some mussels still in their shell at low tide; no we didn't eat them. It's been fun to watch the tide go in and out and amazing how high the tide gets and then just how far you can walk out at low tide.

The house is great too. We were a little nervous at first that it doesn't have air conditioning but the breeze off the ocean is cold so we leave the windows open and the house stays cool. In fact it was such a change from the 100 degree weather we left that we have both boys using humidifers to keep the air in their rooms warm and moist since they both got runny noses and coughs after arriving.

The house has a nice kitchen and we've cook almost all our meals since arriving...except when we have lobster. The nicest surprise was that the local Hannaford has an amazing selection of allergy friendly foods.

We're enjoying our time away, the amazing view and playing with the kids.