February 22nd

Sunday, February 22^nd

 

Today, we made our 7th visit to Sanibel Island. We drove over early with the intention of spending most of the day there.

 

As soon as we got on the island, we stopped by the Chamber of Commerce which has a really nice visitors section. We like the sign that is posted at the doorway and like to take photos there. This was special fun because there actually was quite a bit of snow at Kathy’s house at that time.

 

 

Cordell dropped us at the bike rental shop and we got a bicycle for Kathy.  We took my bike off the rack and Cordell drove on down to the parking lot for Tarpon Beach so that he could be sure to get a parking place. Usually, the beach parking lots fill up by late morning.

 

 

 

Kathy and I biked to the beach lot to meet Cordell. She is sixteen years younger than I am and she is an experienced biker. She easily pulled ahead of me, but she had pity on me and didn’t leave me exactly in the dust.

 

After joining up with Cordell, the three of us biked along one of my favorite paths which goes away from the roads and makes a loop in some of the preserved areas.

 

 

 

 

 

Kathy appeared a bit nervous when she saw the sign warning of fines for feeding alligators. She definitely did not want to be close to any of these reptiles and was happy that we did not see any of them today.

 

 

 We have been showing Kathy how to geocache and we found several containers placed along the bike trail.

 

 

We stopped at Doc Ford’s Rum Bar and Grille for lunch. This was our second time eating there and it has become one of our favorite restaurants.

 

 

 

After lunch, we biked back to the bike shop and returned Kathy’s bicycle. By then, we had covered about 5 ½ miles. Then we spent a few hours on the beach. It was not ideal beach weather but Kathy appreciated the much, much warmer temperatures.