Monday- President’s Day and I got to spend it with Emily, my good friend from home. I needed a “girls day” and H didn’t want to spend his day without a vehicle so he dropped me off at Fisherman’s Village in downtown Punta Gorda. It is a shopping mall in an old restored fishing wharf with lots of neat little shops, live music and several restaurants with some good smells wafting out from their open doors. Emily chose the best one for us to enjoy our lunch of clam chowder and a piled high chicken salad sandwich. The onion rings were good too! And then we drove down the road to shop at Beall’s Outlet before we called H to come and get me. Yes, I did buy a few things that I didn’t need!
H and I stopped at Home Depot and then Wal-Mart and came home with a 15ft piece of solar shade screening. Before dark settled in we had a sunscreen sewn and hung from the trailer awning! We have a really neat spot here at WP Franklin but we have sun from 7am till after 6pm when the sun sets! This screen sure helps! Our next spot at John Prince County Park in West Palm will most likely be a sunny spot also, so this awning will get used again!
Wednesday, we drove back over to the Sanibel Island causeway bridge, just in time to stand in all the traffic trying to squeeze out onto the island. We finally found a parking spot at Bowman’s Beach, which was packed with other sun seekers and folks collecting shells. There was one spot on the crowded beach that was piled high with a billion small shells. The pile was at least 3 ft tall, 8 ft wide and 20-30 ft long! I brought back a bunch of burgundy scallops, a variety of other clam shells and a little red prickly ball of a creature like we used to see in Hawaii when we snorkeled there.
Go back and look at the picture of our “mobile motel” parked in this campground. See the beautiful motorhome in that picture? It belongs to Roger and Diane who are from a small town near Indianapolis Indiana. They travel with their 2 whippets and Charlie the cat! In the last week, we’ve grown to claim R & D as good friends and we sure hope to meet up with them again! We’ve enjoyed several gorgeous sunsets and some interesting bird watching, too. There is a pair of eagles that roost across the canal. Cormorants, egrets and ibis roost in a tree at the end of the island. The doves down here are Eurasian Collared Doves, which are bigger and louder than our Mourning Doves at home. This bird in the picture is a Yellow Crowned Night Heron who took his time hunting along the rocky shore by our place.
Today, Sunday I got out the sewing machine and finished up more of my heart shaped potholders and then ended up selling a dozen of them out of my stash!!! Wow – get me to Joann’s!
The trailer is just about ready to hook up and move east to West Palm in the morning.
