Monday morning’s weather report said foggy in the morning and then clearing and sunny by afternoon. The day was to be good so we headed for Daytona Beach - - - but were detained by several back roads thru the forest. Almost had to call Ron to get us out of the sand again! The one road started out wide and packed sand but ended up a two track that zigzagged around utility poles and was all soft, DEEP, rutted sand. A few moves down on the shift knob, a foot on the gas and the 4wheel drive finally got us moving.
Daytona Beach was still hazed in but we did drive the beach from one end to the other. Too bad the surf took up most of the beach!
Tuesday was our “stay at home day”. H got some sun and read some book. I dug out my new sewing machine and tackled sewing on more patches to my new jacket and worked on the first stages of putting together my heart shaped potholders.
Wednesday we drove to Silver Glen Springs and the canoe went in the water first until it was warm enough to go snorkeling. We put the lures in the water and drug them along! Guess who caught the first, the biggest and the most? My “brim” or what we know as bluegill was huge! The fat part of his body was as long as my hand! So, all total it had to have been 10 or 12 inches long from nose to tail! Way clear water, a bunch of fish, lots of gigantic turtles, noisy squawking herons, egrets, manta ray and possibly even a ‘gator! The spring itself was deep and blue and was swarming with foot long silver mullet. Some of them were jumping and leaping out of the water. It felt like we were watching America’s Funniest Videos, especially when we were out on the river and the fish would jump across the wake of a passing boat!
