Bradenton Beach

This trip was....interesting. We were supposed to go to a campground in the Keys that usually takes a year to get reservations at, but due to scheduling conflicts we had to cancel. We decided to instead go to Bradenton which is one of our favorite beaches in Florida. Well, the red tide decided to move in the day before we arrived and it put a huge kink in our trip. For those that don't know what the red tide is, it's a build up of algae in the ocean that suffocates the fish. Therefore, there are dead fish EVERYWHERE including on the beach baking in the sun. We went about an hour south to try to get out of it, but as we were leaving it was moving into that area as well. Then while Chad was loading the boat onto the trailer he slipped trying to catch our key fob and fell into the hitch and cut his head open so McKinley was crying as blood was dripping down his face. Then we flew a tire on boat trailer. Like I said....interesting :) Despite all that we still had a great time getting to spend some time as a family since we've been so busy.