Hilton Head Island

After pushing it hard for a week we decided to take a break and stop at a marina in Hilton Head for a couple of nights.  What a beautiful island Hilton Head is.  We needed to get to West Marine because our water pump went out and it was about 2.5 miles away and we tried to rent a car but they didn't have any available so we ended up renting bicycles.  A lot of the vacationers here rent bicycles and they have really nice bike paths that go all around the island.  It was probably better anyways renting the bikes because we needed the exercise.
We biked to West Marine, the beach, the grocery store twice, a really good pizza place (Fat Baby's) and it felt like we covered every inch of the island.  We would bike over these bridges and they would have these signs "don't feed the alligators".  I thought they were kidding but sure enough we saw a couple.  One was under the water and another was a baby that was out on a branch, which I was able to get a picture of.  It's hard to see them with all the trees and the water is really murky and marshy.  We also saw a turtle under the water and a couple up on land.
Today is Saturday the 11th of June and we are heading out again making our way up the ICW.  This is such a cool way to see these east coast states.  Way different than when we did it on our motorcycles a few years back. 

The baby alligator

Amanda look-Turtles