Carrie comes for the Holidays

Wednesday-Thursday December 19-20, 2012
Site 6 Oscar Scherer State Park
Osprey Florida

 

While I love that salt air, it’s not very good for Winnona and Ruby.

Wednesday

We’ve been at ocean front campgrounds for a month now.  First at Hunting Island and now at Gamble Rogers.  So when we leave this morning we go by the automatic car wash to give Winnona a bath and hopefully get the accumulation of salt off of her before it does any damage.   David has taken Ruby over on Tuesday to check out the facilities and washed her and hosed off underneath. 

Cost today, $12.50 to do Winnona.  Seems like a bargain.  Of course I was on the ground feeding the quarters and switching the dial from soap to rinse and back.

 

 

 

We drive the 215 miles to Oscar Scherer separately.

 

I have three stops to make on my way.  The first is an appointment at my father’s bank to work on his financial affairs.  The second is a stop by his house to make sure everything is still fine.  The house is on the market but there hasn’t been much traffic hopefully because of the holidays.  I’d really like to get it sold. 

My third stop is the best.  I pick up Carrie at the Tampa airport and we head down to Oscar Scherer. 

David drives straight there.  It’s a long drive for us both and a way too busy day for me.

 

 

Carrie can’t wait to get to the beach. Like Mother like Daughter??

 

Thursday

 

We got in late last night and did only the minimum set up.  So this morning Carrie and I go out running and David takes the bikes off the car.   After a late breakfast we pack up for the beach.  It is a beautiful day with a predicted high of 81 so we take the kayaks up to the park’s picnic area where there is a launch site and lock them to the rental rack.  That way we don’t have to drive them around for two weeks or take them down and put them back on the car multiple times in order to use them.

 

 

It’s a windy day but beautiful.

Carrie loses no time getting her feet in the water.  It’s cold at first but not after you’ve been in a while although she doesn’t decide to put on her suit and go in as a few people do. 

Just having her feet in the waters of the gulf on December 20th seems amazing enough to her having just flown in from Baltimore, Maryland.

 

 

We are at Nokomis Beach just north of Venice.  The shells are piled nearly a foot deep at the water line.  It’s amazing.

 

 

 

We fiddle the day away, reading, walking the beach, people watching, bird watching, and shell seeking.

 

 

After spending all afternoon at the beach, in the sun,  we’re HUNgry.
Time to head home for dinner.

 

David’s DElicious tempeh burritos with red chard. YUM!!

And JMC for dessert!

(yes another HALF gallon was procured before we left Gamble Rogers so we’d have plenty in this area of no Brusters)

 

 

 

Having loads of fun already.  So happy to have her here with us for the holidays!!