First things first - apparently I got the size wrong on yesterday's alligator. The guys agreed that it was 12-13 feet long. We walked over to the ice cream shop after dinner, but brought it back to enjoy as it was quite chilly out. The card game was short last night as the guys crushed us in the third round. We will look for revenge tonight. Watched a bit of Olympics then got to bed.
We got going early this morning so Russ could meet his friends for golf in Englewood. After dropping him off we headed to Lemon Creek Wildflower Preserve for a walk. Unfortunately when we got there we realized it was a private preserve. There were no trespassing signs all over the place. We decided to go down the road to Cedar Point Environmental Park. The trails were lovely and well groomed. There wasn't a lot of bird life there though. We saw two white pelicans and a couple of ruddy turnstones flipping over shells on the shore to look for food. We then wandered over to Boca Grande and made our way to Gasparilla Island State Park. We parked near the 1890 lighthouse and walked down to the shell covered beach. We picked up a few of the prettier ones and then Cathie and Dave each found a sand dollar! That was the highlight of the day. We went into town and wandered a bit until we found a lovely restaurant with plenty of outside seating. We chose a table way away from anyone else and had grouper finger baskets - delish. Russ called as we were eating so when we finished we headed back to pick him up. When we got back to Siesta Key three of us went out to read by the pool. The weather today was lovely - 73 and sunny. I am still having trouble with putting pics up. Will do my best to fix the problem.
With Cathie's help we were able to fix the photo problem so here are the last couple of pics from yesterday and the few I took today.
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