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Sunday funday

These beach days are all starting to mash together.  Taking pictures and writing these recaps helps me remember.  We started a little later than previous days, about 10, and went to Manasota Key beach.  I don’t know if this is just a popular beach in general or if it was because it was Sunday, but this beach was packed, busier than anywhere else we have been so far.  Excellent place for people watching, maybe not so great for finding treasures in the sand.  


The water was warm and fairly calm, and the sky was sunny and cloudless.  It was a beautiful day.  I wasn’t bothered by red tide at all, Joe was just a little bit.  


We stopped at a grocery store after the beach, we really could do better at food planning.  We should have enough to get us to Wednesday now.

I had some things to mail so we stopped at the post office in downtown Venice.  Since we were there we walked down the main street.  Busy area for a Sunday afternoon, even though a bunch of the places were closed. There’s an ice cream place that makes their own waffle cones and you can smell them from a block away. We skipped the sweets, but Joe bought me a shirt. 


There are a ton of trails at Oscar Scherer.  We wanted to be out at Big Lake for sunset, so around 5:30 we headed that way. I had the map so we took the wrong way a few times, but eventually made it there a little after 6.  


We sat down for a few minutes and eventually spotted an alligator who appeared to be hunting for some dinner.  Good thing there are signs there that this is not a swimming lake. 


On our way back we saw so many eagles and ospreys up in the trees.  They were a very vocal bunch.


We got back to the campsite and I started some laundry. So nice having this option there. Not that either of us mind wearing the same things a few times, but it’s so humid that nothing ever dries out very well.  All of our towels were getting especially gross.  


Joe has been wanting shrimp tacos since we got here, so we cooked up a pretty awesome dinner.  These evenings are flying by, by the time we eat, get our stuff cleaned up and a shower it’s almost time for bed.  We skipped having a fire, it was such a nice night it wasn’t needed.

Day 9 / Feb 26

Sunday

Grocery

$79.32

Odometer trip start

293762

Stamps & sunscreen

$26.50

Odometer day start

295073

Shirt

$10.70

Odometer end

295106

Campsite

$38.30

Daily miles

33

Daily total

$154.82

Total miles

1344

Trip total

$952.40


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