Apalachicola & St. George Island beach
Wed., Feb 20
Somewhat cloudy this morning. Sun will have to work at getting space to shine. Coolish temperatures, i.e., 60’s when we set off. First to take some pictures of tall skiny rentals units sitting on the beach. From there to our wireless location – the Subway which just happens not to open until 10am, so we park out front and use the ‘free’ service to get our mail and post yesterdays’ pictures. We hear that gas in the Ottawa area is now $1.11. It’s risen here as well from $3.05 to $3.19 Then we drive to the westerly most part of the island to walk the beach in front of a gated community. Almost deserted so let the dogs go and go they do. See pictures – Gypsy particularly loved rolling and scratching her back on top of some fishy thing. Both dogs are more adventuresome and venture into deeper waters meaning both are soaked and in the end carry half the beach in their fur.
Our next destination is Apalachicola, slightly west of here on the mainland, but requiring us to cross another bridge from Eastpoint. We walk around, sampling a few of the shops and buying Christmas gifts. When Al headed off for the hardware store, I discovered yet another beaded silk velvet cell phone bag, more elaborate that the other and having a colour-matched zipper closing.
Our day ends with Al playing like a true RV’er by vacuuming the car seats which are sandy to say the least and then moving on to test out his newly purchased long-handled brush by scrubbing the black streaks off the trailer. I should have had him buy a squeegee as well since the windows are showing my somewhat ineffectual window washing from several days ago.Tomorrow I hope we will go to Aligator’s Point where we have been told the beaches often have mighty nice shell specimens. It’s 1.5 hours away, so we will need to check the tide charts to time our arrival at low tide.
Somewhat cloudy this morning. Sun will have to work at getting space to shine. Coolish temperatures, i.e., 60’s when we set off. First to take some pictures of tall skiny rentals units sitting on the beach. From there to our wireless location – the Subway which just happens not to open until 10am, so we park out front and use the ‘free’ service to get our mail and post yesterdays’ pictures. We hear that gas in the Ottawa area is now $1.11. It’s risen here as well from $3.05 to $3.19 Then we drive to the westerly most part of the island to walk the beach in front of a gated community. Almost deserted so let the dogs go and go they do. See pictures – Gypsy particularly loved rolling and scratching her back on top of some fishy thing. Both dogs are more adventuresome and venture into deeper waters meaning both are soaked and in the end carry half the beach in their fur.
Our next destination is Apalachicola, slightly west of here on the mainland, but requiring us to cross another bridge from Eastpoint. We walk around, sampling a few of the shops and buying Christmas gifts. When Al headed off for the hardware store, I discovered yet another beaded silk velvet cell phone bag, more elaborate that the other and having a colour-matched zipper closing.
Our day ends with Al playing like a true RV’er by vacuuming the car seats which are sandy to say the least and then moving on to test out his newly purchased long-handled brush by scrubbing the black streaks off the trailer. I should have had him buy a squeegee as well since the windows are showing my somewhat ineffectual window washing from several days ago.Tomorrow I hope we will go to Aligator’s Point where we have been told the beaches often have mighty nice shell specimens. It’s 1.5 hours away, so we will need to check the tide charts to time our arrival at low tide.
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