Showing posts with label adventure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label adventure. Show all posts

When a normal day feels like an amazing adventure...


Earlier this week I was on my way to a photo-shoot for www.Freshmommyblog.com and I literally drove into a wall of fog. It was so intense that when you drove towards the island over the causeway, you couldn't even see the land on the other side. My first thought was that we should make a new plan, we were definitely not going to get the golden hour light we were aiming for. You couldn't see the sun at all, everything was completely covered. But after sending a few phone pictures to Tabitha and chatting about our options, we decided to go for it. It may not have been our original plan but that doesn't mean it couldn't be better. The scene was like something out of a movie, the water was quiet and the whole beach seemed as if it was part of the clouds. I wish I had taken more pictures of the actual fog to show you, these are the few that I did happen to get.

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This was driving towards the island.
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Once you made it to the other side of the causeway you could see a little more, but there was still no horizon in sight.
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All of the seagulls were grounded, waiting out the fog. There were hundreds of them all over the beach.
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When looking out over the beach, ocean & sky you'd normally be able to see them all distinctly, 
but on this day they all blended into one. 
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Driving back to the the park, after the shoot, it looked as if we were heading into a scene out of an epic adventure film.
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I honestly felt like a kid, I was filled with such a childlike wonder. It was something amazing to behold; watching it roll in and blanket everything. What once was a familiar place to me, was made completely new. It was such a fun surprise and made a normal day feel like an amazing adventure.


Family Excursion: Au Sable River

A couple of weeks before my move to Florida my family and I took a day trip down the Au Sable River. It was my first time kayaking in years, 15 yrs to be exact. I was a bit nervous at first but with a few helpful nudges from my best friend Jessica I embraced the fear and after a few scary moments of playing the balancing game with the quickly moving river, I started to get the hang of it.
There were a few hiccups on our journey but we laughed through them and made some pretty amazing memories. Below are a few pics I was able to snap with an underwater camera. You'll notice about half way down that we are all sportin ridiculously awesome ponchos, that is because not even 20min into our 5hr journey it began to pour. Luckily my parents are always prepared, the ponchos kept parts of us dry...well dryer than we would have been :) That was just one of the stories we had to laugh at and take with us at the end of the day.
I'm excited for our trip down the river next year!
family canoe trip
family canoe trip
family canoe trip
family canoe trip
family canoe trip
family canoe trip
family canoe trip
family canoe trip
family canoe trip
family canoe trip
family canoe trip
family canoe trip
family canoe trip
family canoe trip
family canoe trip
family canoe trip
family canoe trip