Last night I took a shot of the full moon from our balcony. The boys won again at cards so the score is now 7 to 5 in their favor.
We got up early this morning to take a sunrise walk on the beach. Unfortunately it was quite foggy so we didn't actually see the sun rise. The walk was nice though. We saw lots of gulls, sanderlings, and black skimmers. We had our croissants for breakfast, showered and got in the car to drive north to the TECO Manatee Viewing Center at Apollo Beach. We met up with Kelly in the parking area and spent some time watching the manatees. The picture I put up is of a mom and her baby. We also saw quite a few tarpon. The one pictured was about five feet long. We saw black and turkey vultures, a great blue heron, ibises, osprey, palm warbler, little blue heron, and catbirds.We spotted a couple of anoles on the boardwalk out to the tower and caught a shot of a fiddler crab making his way across. We saw lots of fiddler crabs in their natural habitat just off the boardwalk. We climbed the tower and took a shot of the Tampa skyline in the fog. Cathie took a shot of Dave and Kelly and I at the top. It was great to see her and to spend part of her birthday weekend with her. We drove to a very nice restaurant called Circles for lunch which we enjoyed on the patio. Cathie and I had fish tacos with mango salsa, Kelly had crab cakes and Russ and Dave had grouper sandwiches. We came back to Siesta Key and stopped at the grocery store. We are having burgers for dinner. Cathie made a lovely potato salad to go with it.
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