January 26-27, 2015

Monday, January 26^th

This was an uneventful, rather lazy day. There was a lot of wind blowing all day. We did make a quick trip out to the grocery to pick up a few items because we were having a dinner guest tonight. Both of us enjoyed resting and napping for a while in the afternoon, recharging our internal batteries.

 

 

Our local friend and fellow geocacher, Brian Wylie, came to have dinner with us. We also had an ulterior motive—we wanted to pick his brain. He has logged 5,417 geocache finds. We have 2,414, so we figured we could learn a few tricks from him.

 

 

 

We enjoyed sharing dinner and wound up talking until well after midnight. Brian brought us some avocadoes that were grown in his yard. He told us that he has more than he can ever use. A lot of us at home have tomato plants in our backyards, but can you imagine having avocadoes?

 

 

Tuesday, January 27^th
 

Well, some of the folks back home had snow again today and hearing that made us so thankful to be where we are right now.
 

There is so much to see and do on Sanibel Island and we decided to go back there today. This time we took our bicycles and rode a little over 4 miles looking for geocaches.
 

 

 

There are no traffic lights on this 12 mile long island, but there are two intersections where officers direct the flow of cars, bicycles and pedestrians.
 

 
 

There are numerous signs all over the island and once in a while we see one that is a bit different—like this warning for a gopher tortoise crossing:

 

 

…or this bicycle safety rule:

 

 

We found a geocache that was hidden in a sea grape tree at one of the beaches.
 

 

 

My granddaughter asked me to test the water and tell her what the temperature was.
 

 

When our iPhone batteries got low, we stopped for a picnic lunch while we recharged them.

 

 

We are sure that one geocache which we couldn’t find is missing because we saw the tell-tale sign, but not the container.
 

 

 

Back out on the trail, we saw some more interesting things. Most all of the residential areas here are really very nice, but one neighborhood we biked through was especially pretty. One house had flowers growing above the garage door—something I have never seen.

 

 

Many of the mailboxes on the island are uniquely decorated and I thought of my daughter-in-law, Corinne, when I saw this one. When she visited us last year, she bought a string of these buoy floats to use for decorating at her home.