My Walk In Ocean City, Maryland

My Wednesday Walk today is in Ocean City. Maryland!

We started out a little later than we planned and arrived about 10am. It was still early when we arrived at the Inlet parking lot so there was still plenty of parking available.

This is the view of the big ferris wheel from the lot. In just a few more hours this place is going to be crowded with lots of people. We (husband, son and self) were only going to be here for a couple of hours as we had plans to meet with some family for lunch and go-karts for the kids.

The boardwalk wasn't crowded yet either. We had plans to walk the boardwalk, stop in a couple of shops and take a walk along the beach before our meet-up for lunch.

I still get a kick out of seeing the big shark at Ripley's Believe It or Not!

There is a small boardwalk that you can walk down towards the beach on. It goes down about two thirds of the way. I knew walking in the sand might be difficult for me so walking down on this boardwalk helped a lot.

Walking on the sand was difficult for me as I have CRPS (Complex Regional Pain Syndrome) but walking along the beach and feeling the ocean waves on my feet was what I was looking forward to doing the most while here.

Once we were on the wet sand it was much easier to walk. It had been several years since we'd been to Ocean City and it felt wonderful to see and feel the ocean waves!

Walking back was a little more difficult as I was feeling more pain and sometimes I will start to have spasms which is very painful. Just a little further.....

Luckily, I made it back! Got my shoes back on and we continued our walk. This is the Firefighters Memorial monument which is on the boardwalk.

There are several places here that you can rent a bike and they have all kinds of bikes as well. You can only ride a bike on the boardwalk at certain hours though.

You can also take a souvenir photo on one of the huge wooden Adirondack chairs that are right by the boardwalk.

More shops along the boardwalk.

There are so many places to eat here and there is something for everyone. If we didn't already have plans for lunch then I would totally be okay to have pizza at the beach. You can even have lunch (or dinner) on their rooftop deck.

Now we are coming up on a sand display that I was hoping we would get to before having to leave. I love seeing these. The third one had some damage but it was still awesome to see!

Ocean City is the only place in Maryland (so far) that I've seen seagulls with the black head. We have plenty of seagulls close to where I live but none like the one in the lower right hand corner of this photo.

I love this sculpture on the beach. It's a nice area for the smaller children to play on.

We got our walks in and shopping done so it was time to head back to the truck and meet up with some cousins that live just outside of Ocean City. We had a snack of funnel cake, fried oreos and fresh lemonade which was the best I've ever had. Didn't get any photos but they were delicious. You gotta watch out for the seagulls though when you have food out in the open. They are not beyond swooping down to try to confiscate something from you.

This is my last photo and how I wish that this was going in the opposite direction! My feet are killing me but it was totally worth it! My son is already hitting us up for a return trip so maybe we'll be able to get back one more time before school starts.

Thank you @tattoodjay for #wednesdaywalk!!