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Day 270 - Road Trip to Sanibel Island, FL

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Day 270: Saturday, January 21st: This morning, good friends Diane and David arrived with their nice Buick SUV to take us on a tour of the shelling island of Sanibel. They looked good!

We drove over to Sanibel Island and angled north to Captiva Island where there was a good restaurant overlooking the beach. It was called the "Mucky Duck."

It was right on the beach, and David took a picture of us as we waited for our table. The Gulf of Mexico (behind us) was very calm, and we hoped it would stay that way for our cruise to the Florida Keys in a couple of days:

While we were waiting two little redheaded boys were running and playing energetically in the surf and the sand behind us. Ruth had to get a picture of them in their complete innocence:

That was the only picture she got that was, uh…, innocent.

We had a delightful lunch and then went on a serious shopping spree looking for shells. Diane enjoys doing crafts involving shells, and this is a Mecca for shell-hunters. You thought they get them on the beach? We saw thousands of shells (for sale) and bought a few. It was fun.

Driving back through these barrier islands we spotted this "front yard" full of cacti (cactuses?) The variety was impressive:

Back at the boat we were still full from lunch (it was GOOD!), so we just had cocktails and light hors' d'oeuvres.

Bill relaxed with his favorite beverage and we discussed all sorts of things:

Sadly, we said goodbye to David and Diane and promised to stop at their place in Palm City on the way through in a couple of months.

It was another wonderful day in paradise. The temperature today was in the low 80s.

Oh! One more thing! Late yesterday Ruth walked back to the Edison/Ford estate for some amplifying pictures, and on the way back got this picture of the most nasty thorny tree we have ever seen. These thorns are HUGE. The sign on the tree said it was some sort of kapok tree but our research doesn't say anything about thorns on kapok trees. Here it is; for perspective, that's a second story window behind the tree:

Position tonight: N26 38.488 W081 52.580

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