March 23 - Sat.

After a night of rain, we woke to a sunny, warm,humid day. Even tho we were still sore from sunburn, we decided not to let a perfect beach day go by. We went to Siesta Beach. The beach was crowded, a lot different from the other day when it was cold &windy and the beach was empty. The water was fairly warm. Richard did his metal detecting and found a really nice silver ladies watch. We think it must have been lost not long ago because it wasn't that caked with sand and it was still running. The beach has white,fine sand,the kind Richard likes to detect in. A funny thing happened. We were eating our packed lunch on the beach and Richard just took a few bites from his sandwich and a sea gull swooped down from behind him and grabbed his sandwich right out of his hand!! Boy was he mad! I of course thought it was so funny. I had already eaten my sandwich. The sun became overcast, and it was like a fog mist was on the beach. You couldn't see very far, but it was still warm and didn't seem to bother anyone. It was like a humid mist because my hair was wet and I didn't get it wet in the water. We stayed there most of the day. In the park there is a bridge over part of the river. When we got back there was several people standing on the bridge. So we got out to see what they were looking for. Well there was a large alligator sunning himself along the edge of the water, a smaller one was there also. (See pic) we enjoyed the day, but are "double sunburned" now and sore.