April 12, 2017 - Wednesday

Another beach day! We are of course in Florida!!!🏖 had a good breakfast then set off for the water. It was in the high 80's,but a little overcast. Well.... It stayed overcast all day!! We didn't see the sun except for maybe about 15 min, but it was comfortable. The beach was crowded, in fact we had to go to lot #5 to find a close parking place. The water was warm, Richard was able to relax on his air mattress (after he finally got it blown up) the waves were gentle opposite from yesterday when they were strong. We also saw some Dolphins slplashing about. It's fun to watch the kiddies playing in the sand and splashing in the water. 

April 10 & 11,2017 - Monday & Tuesday

Had a great beach day at Wiggins St. Park. Temp's in the high 80's with a slight breeze.  The water was warm. Richard did some metal detecting & found a dime!! 👍 the beach was fairly crowded being a week day, but it is spring break.

Tuesday - Spent  the morning taking care of paying our ticket 🙁, glad that is done with!! It was a sunny, warm day, so we went to the beach later in the afternoon. It is about a 45 min drive. We carried our stuff down to the beach and got comfortable and within abut an hour the sun disappeared & a very cool breeze came up. In fact it got rather chilly. Soooo we packed up and left. As we were driving back wouldn't you know....the sun came out.

April 8 & 9, 2017 - Saturday & Sunday

Saturday was overcast, so we got a morning tee time because we planned on going to 4:00 mass. This time at the golf course, we were paired with another couple. They were from Germany, but spoke English pretty well, except if they hit a bad shot, then they vented in German and we didn't  know what they were saying .... but we could only guess!! (Like when Richard hits a bad shot). After church we treated ourselves to a delicious bar-be-que rib dinner at a restaurant we were told about called the Log Cabin. It was very crowed, which usually means it is good, which it was!  

Sunday was a laid back day. Richard wanted to watch the NASCAR race on tv, so I got the laundry done, fun time!  The Çampground does have a nice laundry room. We knew the beaches would be crowded being the weekend & spring break. Which also meant the parking would be far. 

April 7,2017 - Friday

Another cool. Day, not a beach day...so we went golfing again at a different course. This course was near the road where we got our ticket, so after we finished golfing we went to see why we got that ticket for the u-turn. Well ..... Right there before the opening where we made the u-turn was a sign stating no u-turns! Neither one of us saw that sign yesterday!! So I guess the officer was doing his job and the ticket was legitimate. From now on we will be more observant. At least he didn't give us a ticket for not having our insurance car with us, only a warning. By the way...the card is now in the glove compartment !

April 6, 2017 - Thursday

The 90 degree temperature's and humidity broke. (Thank goodness!) It rained in the morning and the temp dropped to the comfortable 80's. We decided to golf instead of the beach. We got a 2:30 tee time, so we decided to do some sight-seeing and shopping earlier. Well we missed the entrance to a CVS in a location we were not familiar with, so we saw an opening in the road & made a u-turn, which are legal in Florida. All of a sudden there is a State Tropper car behind us with the lights blinking for us to pull over....when he came to the window, Richard asked what the problem was (we thought maybe we had a light out), boy were we wrong...he said we made an illegal turn. We said we were told u-turns are legal in FL. He said not on that road...huh!!! But we knew not to argue with him. He asked for Richard's drivers license & proof of insurance. I realized the insurance card was back in the motorhome which we told him. Result....we got a $163.00 ticket for a "civil infraction" and a warning citation for not having the insurance card in the car! Welcome to Florida!!! Richard said he wasn't going to let this ruin his golf game. So we did have a good time golfing, but we still didn't think we should have got that ticket!!

April 5, 2017 - Wednesday

Another hot day - 90's. So we headed out to the beach. This time we went a little farther down the highway to Delnor-Wiggins St Park, also where we had been on previous trips and liked the beach. Close parking with only a short jaunt to the beach. We were fortunate to get a really close space. The waves were very strong, but the water was warm ( the dot in the water in the picture is Richard) we sure got our share of sun. We didn't use enough sun screen and we both got a little sunburn . 

April 4, 2017 - Tuesday

We had our first "beach day" today.🏖 We spent the day at Lovers Key State Park in Fort Myers. We had been here on previous  trips. It has a free tram that drives you down to the beach from the parking lot, which is great & it is a double tram that holds many people. It runs back and forth every 15min. It was a super hot day, 90's again, but there was a nice breeze off the ocean. Richard even got his "beach nap" in.