Just down the street from the park is this restaurant on the river. It smelled divine. Will have to try this place next time someone comes down to visit from the frozen north. There’s a quasi-wrap-around porch outside with a good view. OK, so this concludes my outting to Centennial Park. It gave me the opportunity to post some miles to Shipshape (I’m guesstimating a mile and a half), and it kept me from...
Above and below, a couple of play areas for the kiddoodles. Notice the open space; they do fireworks over the river on the 4th of July, and I bet it gets packed with people for that event. Below, more artsy fartsy stuff – I thought the sky looked cool through the labyrinth of bare branches, seed pods and new green growth.
Above, we have some amazing cloud formations serving as a backdrop for the majestic high-rises. You can see from the palm tree that there was a fairly good breeze coming in over the water, which was a good thing because it sure was hot today! Above, some tiled detail of a pavillion, under which there were some women and children setting up a meal on picnic tables, which they’d covered with brightly colored plastic...
There were some exposed mud flats close to shoreline/promenade. I peered down and saw some fiddler crabs waving in a threatening manner at one another – “look girls, my claw is MUCH bigger than his!” – but no king’s crowns, alas! It would have been pretty easy to clamber down there and retrieve them, had I spied any. Dontcha just love mangroves? They are so weird! some of them that are just starting out...
Decided to take a walk out onto one of the fishing piers. On advice of the above signs, did not jump in for a nice swim. My attempt at artsy fartsy perspective shot. From under the closer bridge, there is an amazing series of high-rises, standing majestically against the sky. Unfortunately, due to glare, I could not see the screen and chopped off the very tippy top of one of the buildings here. More...
I had to google (yeah that’s a verb now) and found out that Wikipedia calls The Battle of Fort Myers is known as the “southernmost land battle of the Civil War.” Coincidentally, it looks like tomorrow is the 143rd anniversary of the battle!
In keeping with my mood to capture trash can art and such these days, here’s the seal of the City of Fort Myers (above). There’s also an old-fashioned street clock down there, and it was actually keeping the correct time.
Love the views of the bridges down here by the river. Also love the massive, old-growth trees that surround the “uncommon friends” fountain.
Here’s more of the “Uncommon Friends” fountain. The flowers are part of the sculpture – they’re totally fake! Note there’s a cute little otter statue, too. Here are some manatees; I looked in the river for some, but didn’t find any.
