Layover I’m SO grateful to get out of the great frozen tundra (temps in the single digits -sometimes, in the NEGATIVE single digits).
Oh yeah. Epic meetings. Which suck, by the way. At least the boss bought us toys. We have play doh and silly putty, etc. Above, I get all existential with the silly putty.
Someone who doesn’t even list Sanibel as a place to which he has ever traveled should not be editing an article about a Sanibel eating establishment on Trip Advisor. Referring to the style of food as “home cooking” does not constitute subjectivity. It means it’s not haute cuisine. I was there, I should know. You were not.
Above you can see that as many live tulips that had to be thrown back, there were that many empty ones. Those pear whelks are for my flower pots out on the lanai. Above, I’ve put down a quarter to show the size of the lone true tulip I found. Above: Some of the olives are still wonderfully shiny. I was happy to have gotten the two crab carapaces home intact, as they tend...
After breakfast, I got in my car to head back home and prepare for the work week. The tide was still pretty low, low enough to expose this sand bar in the bay. It was already past 10:00 am.
Someone had tossed this old horse conch up above the pile. I put my net down for scale. I’ve taken one of these home before; labored over it, slaved over it to remove all the barnacles, and it ended up that the barnacles were what was holding it together! Needless to say, I passed. As we were walking back to the access path to go have breakfast, we encountered this poor soul without a...
Above, a bird feeds on whatever it is that shore birds feed upon. Below, Bonnie patrols the shore near The Rocks. Below, an amazing array of colorful sponges and other vegetation. We both refrained from picking up any more sea urchins, as neither of us has been able to bring ourselves to deal with the ones we picked up several weeks ago. Neither of us has figured out how to properly dry/preserve the various...
