Bowers Beach, Delaware

After spending the day at Rehobeth beach, we decided to try one that was closer and maybe less crowded. We went to Bowers Beach which is about 6 miles from Dover AFB. Not being an "ocean" beach kinda girl, I forgot to check the tides. The beach was at low tide... so much for SWIMMING! We could have walked out a mile and it still would have been knee deep.


Bowers Beach at low tide

Even at low tide, the kids enjoyed the beach. We were talking to a guy that had a camp on the beach. We learned all about the beach. The beach is a mating beach for horseshoe crabs. About 5 weeks previous he said there were about 2,000 horseshoe crabs up on the beach! I wish I could have seen that! The kids found some of the crabs that didn't make it. They carried them up onto the beach and had a horseshoe crab display set up for us.

The boys and a new friend

with their horseshoe crab display

Huge horseshoe crab shells

Smaller horseshoe crab shells

One lady was out walking on the beach and found that some of the horseshoe crabs had started to hatch. If you look closely at this photo, she is holding a baby horseshoe crab. It was small than her fingernail! The kids were amazed that something so small grew to be so big!

Baby horseshoe crab

It was a fun morning at the beach even though we didn't get to swim. The kids saw jellyfish, and lots and lots of snails. They built a sand castle and gathered shells and rocks. Then we drove back to the base and cooled off in the pool.