Monday, February 05, 2007

 

Sanibel Island Adventures

Sunday, January 28. Sanibel and Captiva are both beautiful Florida islands. Although they were really whacked by Hurricane Charlie and subsequent storms in 2005, you could never tell it today. Everything is lush and green, and the flowers are both abundant and gorgeous. Seeing flowers in January is clearly one of the perks of this journey. Today Bob/Jim’s cousin Claudia and her friend Bob joined us again on our boat. We couldn’t take them out on the water because the winds have come up. Instead we enjoyed a delicious lunch at Grandma Dot’s, a fantastic restaurant that is part of the Sanibel Island Marina complex. (Did I mention that the friendly dockmaster brings us warm muffins and a newspaper every morning? Cool!)

After lunch Claudia and Bob took Martha and I over the lighthouse and the beach. The lighthouse is unusual because it is totally constructed of metal beams. It is still functions as a lighthouse though. The wind prevented us from doing very much shelling, so we enjoyed tagging along with Claudia and Bob while pursued their fascinating hobby of geocaching. Geocaching is sort of a treasure hunting game where you use a GPS to find specific “treasures” that have been stashed by others. Clues and information for thousands of sites can be found online. They were able to locate and report their success online for at least two spots while we were with them. After they left Jim, Martha, Bob, and I took a long walk. It was great to get some exercise and explore the neighborhood near the marina. If I haven’t said it before, Sanibel is now one of my favorite spots! Again, we wished we had bicycles.


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