A Great Beach Day

This isn''t actually a photo I took today, but I was looking through the the photos on my computer and I noticed that Shane wore the same shirt and hat today as that day in 2010.  I'm not sure what beach that is, but today we went to Sanibel and Captiva Islands.

It is about an hour and half drive from our house, but we left early for us--around 10:30 a.m. and got to the Mucky Duck on Captiva around noon.  I had the seafood platter and Shane had the BBQ Bacon-Wrapped Shrimp.  I get one of those BBQ Bacon-Wrapped Shrimp in my platter, along with steamed shrimp, fried clams, fried cod, cole slaw, french fries, and some things I don't know what they were, but were delicious.

This photo was also from a previous post.  I didn't take any photos today.

After lunch, we went to Tarpon Beach on Sanibel Island.  It was very hot today, but the beach had a warm breeze going and it was nice under the umbrella.  We each have an umbrella.  When we got warm, we went in the water.  The water is like bath water.  It is warm, which makes us worry a bit about hurricanes.  Hurricane season starts June 1.

After a few hours at the beach, we packed up and headed back.  On the way back, we stopped at what we call the Orange Juice Place.  It is a tourist store that sells oranges, orange juice, and tourist gift stuff.  The two best things about it is the free juice samples--orange, grapefruit, strawberry/orange, and lemonade.  It is worth a stop just for that, but they also sell the best soft-serve ice cream.  We always get the twisted vanilla/orange cone.  Very Yummy!  So much for the diet.

I did run this morning before we left.  I did a little more than 4 miles, but had to walk the last mile, cause the heat was killing me.  I was a big sweaty mess by the time I got back.