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| Beach Bums For A Week |
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| Great Picture By Evie |
Both Evie and I are up early, at 6:20, some clouds off over the oeean, and it looks like it could be a rainy day on Sanibel, perhaps a couple. Let's hope the weather gurus are their usual selves, wrong.
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| Sanibel Turns Coney Island For A Weekend |
Yesterday was another typical Florida day, sunny and warm, all day, so that we were on the beach early, left it late, about 6:00. I started the day on the beach before sunrise, with lots of other visitors, to see the spectacular sunrise and I was not disappointed, as yesterday's pictures show. After coffee and writing my blog, Evie and I went for a walk about 9:00, to the Lighhouse, while Linda and Rich went to church, then to the store to pick up dinner. When we visit somewhere distant, like Sanibel, we always figure we will run into someone we know; well, we were proved right yesterday morning as we ran in to an old student, neighbor, and our son Tom's good friend, David King and his wife, from Hudson, Ohio. They also mentioned that a couple, the Borrman's were also there visiting, both of whom were colleagues when I taught at Western Reserve Academy.
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| Snowy Egret, Black Bill, Yellow Feet |
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| One Of Many Brown Pelicans, Looking For Fish |
I headed back to the condo around 10:30, because Rich had promised to make one of his big breakfasts, but Evie decided to walk some more and stay on the beach since she had eaten breakfast earlier. Rich did not disappoint, sausage patties, home fries, eggs, and cinnamon toast. We were ready, then, for a day on the beach.
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| King Boy And Wife Liz |
We were all down by 11:30 and as I mentioned earlier, except for a trip up to the condo for a quick look at the basketball games, or to get some food or drinks, we stayed put until late afternoon. The Murphy's, from New Jersey, sat with us as well, so they kept us entertained. We read till we were bored, then jumped in the ocean, dried off with a short walk, then back to either reading or conversation about who was going to make it through the NCAA. Linda did go up around 2:30, made sandwiches, and brought them down to the beach for the guys, a 'good wife.' The highlight of the afternoon was a young boy, fishing ten yards in front of us, got a two foot snook, to the excitement of everyone on the beach, who gathered around him and watched as he fought the fish and finally pulled it in. They were not sure what to do with it, eventually kept it and when we went upstairs, they were in the parking lot fileting it for dinner. By later afternoon, we were all toasty, especially Evie, and 'sun tired', that feeling you get after a long day in the sun and sand and water, a good feeling though.
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| Late Afternoon Tired |
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| Holzheimers and Murphy's |
We showered, relaxed with drinks, and Linda had bought some shrimp for an appetizer, so Rich and I watched games and nibbled on the shrimp while Evie was teaching Linda how to transfer pictures from her iPhone to her iPad and iMac. We are all Mac fans. Around 7:45, Rich and I went down and grilled burgers, met some people from Indiana, very friendly like the people from the night before who were from Canada. Vacations seem to bring out the best in people. We had a simple dinner, burgers, grilled onions, the works, and a salad. After dinner, we tried to find a game that interested us but the one team we wanted to see, Creighton, was getting killed, and the other games were just not that interesting to us. And we were tired from the hard day in the sun, so Rich was the first to go off to bed to read, but the rest of us followed. We did not find out who won a couple of the games until this morning on the computer, Our interest in the games wanes, as the tournament progresses.
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| A Boy And His Snook |
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