M arch 12 - Tues.

Today was a chilly, rainy day. Definitely not a beach day! We decided to take a ride to Marco island. Along the way we stopped at a huge market we heard about called Sun Harvest Citrus. They had a window where you could watch how they process the oranges to make orange juice. Besides the usual o.j., they had several other varieties of o.j. And free samples of each. The cranberry/orange & strawberry/ orange were delicious. There was specialty wines,honey,etc. and a wonderful bakery. They also had ice-cream. Richard had a vanilla/orange cone & I had chocolate/key lime, yummy!! While we were sitting eating our cones we talked to a lady who lived in the area. She told us about Wiggins Park where there was a nice sand beach. So, of course we had to go check it out. It was nice, we are going to go there the next warm day ( whenever that is!) we made it to Marco island. And that certainly is my kind of area. It had beautiful homes & motels. The public beach had a parking lot with a boardwalk to the beach (distance about a block) it was raining so we didn't walk it. We saw an RV park not far from there, so we stopped to inquire. Boy did we get a shock, the sites were $60.00 a day!! ( a little, rather A LOT out of our price range!) we usually pay $11 - $20 a day. But as pretty as the area was, we decided it would be too far to drive there every day from our campsite & too far for us "seniors" to lug all our beach gear from the parking lot. We did a lot of driving today. We put over two hundred miles on our car!