Good to hear. We go in the off season, Dec-Mar, so getting into Sliders is easy. We also go to The Surf some. I'll make a list of your places and we'll give them a try.
The wife likes to go so she can walk the beach and hunt for shark teeth. She found over 300 last week. The grand-kids like it too. I took her, one of our d-i-ls, and the two granddaughters for a day back in February. I told them they would freeze at the beach, even though the temp was supposed to be in the mid 60's and sunny. They said it would be just right for walking the beach, so I said OK. They didn't understand the whole 20 mph wind coming off the water thing isn't as pleasant in the 60's as it is in the 90's and by 2:00 their teeth were chattering and they were ready to ride.
We normally go twice a year for a week each time, one at the beginning of the summer and one at the end. We can stay six nights at the fort campground for $182. I get 10 mpg towing and it's 160 miles from my house to the campground so the cost for fuel depends on gas prices (it was nice this year at $1.80 per gallon average).
We started out going, just the wife and me, in a pop-up camper. Now we have a 30' travel trailer and are looking to downsize again because both the sons have campers of their own. It went from just the two of us to a full-blown family affair. Both sons, my b-i-l and his wife go on one of the trips as well as his half sister and her husband. One big happy family!!
We went our normal time last week, but pushed forward the second trip this year because the last four years in September we've either had the trip cut short or completely cancelled (like last year) due to hurricanes or the threat of hurricanes.
When Irma came through in 2017, we were at the Fort campground and had clear sunny weather. That Thursday morning one of the rangers knocked on the camper door and informed us that all campers had to be out by 3:00 PM because the island was being evacuated of non-residents ahead of Irma's predicted eastern seaboard path. So, we packed up and went home....and 24 hours later the path of Irma changed and went up the gulf coast and by Saturday came straight across south GA with the center of the storm about thirty miles from us (Michael did the same the next year).
The things we do to keep peace in the home.