January 15th we are home in Fort DeSoto which is a beautiful, amazing park…we walked until we couldn’t walk anymore. We met all the neighbours…one being from Welland, Ontario. Our afternoon adventure was a self guided tour of the Fort DeSoto fort which was interesting; my homework is to look up more facts on this place. That night we enjoyed a bonfire and headed for bed early so we could enjoy our morning coffee on the beach behind us.
On Wed. the tide was low and the sun was shining by 10:00 it was sunbathing weather and laundry day. Rod found 2 crabs out in the water by our beach which he just had to catch. I was actually hoping it would be an action shot with the crabs catching him. No luck…but it was interesting watching them. We decided to go traveling to the beach again and went for a seashell hunt I found my first sand dollar. We found another beach that had kite surfers…what a neat thing to watch. We headed home to find our chairs under water because the tide came in and since it was Rod that said “just leave the chairs there we will get them when we get back” he had to retrieve them. That night we visited some friends that showed us a game called “Oh Darn” (which Rod renamed) very nice people, to bad they had to go tomorrow.
Thursday, January 17th It rained all night but the morning turned out to be cloudy and okay to go to the beach and look for more treasures. Every time on the Gulf of Mexico beach I see ships (which Jenna and Brad know I love…they are snickering now). No treasures other than a live hermit crab which surprised me when I picked it up…arrived home and Rod started washing the motor home in secret since you are not allowed to clean your vehicle in the park. Our afternoon was spent venturing over to The Pier which has an aquarium there we enjoyed and shopped in many places finding Wal-Mart last...picked up supper and squirrel food for the cardinals, morning doves and of course squirrels. Tomorrow I think it is beach day again. I actually can see the top of a cruise ship going down the channel tonight all lit up.
The morning started out nice so we went for a walk and noticed site 89 was empty so we moved early since we had to dump anyway. This site is Rod’s favourite…the awning can come out and we can have everything out and covered. Lots of walking again and talking to people, we found out in the bay is a family of dolphins and a sea turtle…I haven’t seen them yet. Supper was a restaurant called the Sandlot (it was okay I still enjoy Rods’ Place much better.)
Saturday was a touring day going into the slums to get oysters for Rod (which we didn’t get since the season doesn’t start until next week) we asked directions from this gentleman with gold teeth to get back on track which I don’t think he knew where he was. The night ended up with tying-down everything, thunder was in the distance and by the time 5:45 the wind really picked up and with me watching the news a tornado alert was reported. We enjoyed our seafood supper with little worry since the storm moved away fast and only rained stayed all night.
January 20 was a cool 48 degrees out and with the wind chill factor it was 41. We decided to go to the Fort again with the sun shining…we saw a egret and some parrots (I miss ours but I know Kyle is taking good care of him). Rod has started packing things away outside and I cleaned inside. The afternoon we spent watching the neighbours play corn hole, and the amazing performance of the pelicans doing their diving dance together. The sun was actually quite hot, the neighbour had to check and see what our license plate said since they had coats on and Rod topless and me almost they thought we where nuts.
On Wed. the tide was low and the sun was shining by 10:00 it was sunbathing weather and laundry day. Rod found 2 crabs out in the water by our beach which he just had to catch. I was actually hoping it would be an action shot with the crabs catching him. No luck…but it was interesting watching them. We decided to go traveling to the beach again and went for a seashell hunt I found my first sand dollar. We found another beach that had kite surfers…what a neat thing to watch. We headed home to find our chairs under water because the tide came in and since it was Rod that said “just leave the chairs there we will get them when we get back” he had to retrieve them. That night we visited some friends that showed us a game called “Oh Darn” (which Rod renamed) very nice people, to bad they had to go tomorrow.
Thursday, January 17th It rained all night but the morning turned out to be cloudy and okay to go to the beach and look for more treasures. Every time on the Gulf of Mexico beach I see ships (which Jenna and Brad know I love…they are snickering now). No treasures other than a live hermit crab which surprised me when I picked it up…arrived home and Rod started washing the motor home in secret since you are not allowed to clean your vehicle in the park. Our afternoon was spent venturing over to The Pier which has an aquarium there we enjoyed and shopped in many places finding Wal-Mart last...picked up supper and squirrel food for the cardinals, morning doves and of course squirrels. Tomorrow I think it is beach day again. I actually can see the top of a cruise ship going down the channel tonight all lit up.
The morning started out nice so we went for a walk and noticed site 89 was empty so we moved early since we had to dump anyway. This site is Rod’s favourite…the awning can come out and we can have everything out and covered. Lots of walking again and talking to people, we found out in the bay is a family of dolphins and a sea turtle…I haven’t seen them yet. Supper was a restaurant called the Sandlot (it was okay I still enjoy Rods’ Place much better.)
Saturday was a touring day going into the slums to get oysters for Rod (which we didn’t get since the season doesn’t start until next week) we asked directions from this gentleman with gold teeth to get back on track which I don’t think he knew where he was. The night ended up with tying-down everything, thunder was in the distance and by the time 5:45 the wind really picked up and with me watching the news a tornado alert was reported. We enjoyed our seafood supper with little worry since the storm moved away fast and only rained stayed all night.
January 20 was a cool 48 degrees out and with the wind chill factor it was 41. We decided to go to the Fort again with the sun shining…we saw a egret and some parrots (I miss ours but I know Kyle is taking good care of him). Rod has started packing things away outside and I cleaned inside. The afternoon we spent watching the neighbours play corn hole, and the amazing performance of the pelicans doing their diving dance together. The sun was actually quite hot, the neighbour had to check and see what our license plate said since they had coats on and Rod topless and me almost they thought we where nuts.
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