Although she got your emails (thank you)… the mobile phones don’t work here so she has not yet (21/11) read any TXT’s you may have sent - but 'Thank You' anyway X.
We are at St Georges Island State Park. It’s a beautiful 1 mile wide, 20 miles long sand spit in the Gulf of Mexico linked to the mainland off the North West coast of Florida, not far from Pensacola by a very, very long bridge. Pensacola? think BP oil spill – but no oil here :)
After some present opening (pretty limited this year) we did a 6 mile walk to Gap Point. The sun was shining (78F) and we saw no one - just one boat.
I gave Jane her Birthday card at Gap Point (pic attached) and then it was out for a meal in the evening (my treat).
A friendly Gopher Tortoise did stop to have a shell stroke / tap which was good but apart from that it was mainly sun, sand, sea, pine trees and cardinals (red birds). No alligators or mosquitoes here – well just a few mosquitoes’ and loads of alligators warning signs but that is all old hat now although we did find out that they can run at 30MPH over land for short distances… nothing on how short ‘the distance’ actually is anywhere though :)
The eating OUT bit? Well actually more IN than normal as there is very little on the island… most (4 out of the 5 restaurants’) are sea food anyway… next year then. So Jane cooked here own Birthday dinner - courgette and feta filo tart (very good), champagne and candles followed by birthday cake with coffee and chocolates.
It is the US holiday season with Thanksgiving next week (25th) which they tend to run into Christmas with many people dressing the tree now and working up for all those office parties in December. Not sure where we will be for Christmas but at the moment it looks like Texas – Ye Ha!
We will 'wrap up' Florida for good in the next blog. Take Care - Den & Jane.
