March 11-14, 2015

Wednesday, March 11^th

 

We noted at breakfast that between the four of us, there are a lot of pills being taken. We were glad that there were no drug raids. This photo shows what an old person’s breakfast looks like:

 

 

 

Our resident alligator showed up again this morning. This is only the second time we have seen him this year. Last year, he spent some time very near our lanai.

 

 

 

Cordell and Kurt had a tee time to play golf later this afternoon, so they spent most of the morning discussing the holes and how they might approach them.

 

 

Ruthie and I went to the community swimming pool. But, first I had to check to see if her toenails were painted. A person just cannot go to the swimming pools without painted toenails!

 

 

 

 

Cordell and Kurt’s golf outing got rained out after 9 holes. However, we did not have any rain here at the condo until later in the evening. Since this part of Florida has the ocean on the east side and the Gulf of Mexico on the west side, the weather changes very quickly just a few mile apart.

 

Thursday, March 12^th

 

This was Kurt and Ruthie’s last day in Florida.

 

 

 

They wanted to visit Sanibel Island. I have lost count of the number of times we have been there, but I don’t think I will ever tire of spending time at this beautiful place.

 

We decided to ride on some of the bike trails and look for some geocaches. Ruthie rented a 3 wheeler bike and it worked very, very well for her.

 

 

 

 

 

Once when she was looking for a geocache that I had already found, I perched on her bike seat which has a back rest and relaxed a bit.

 

We all had a lot of geocaching success. Kurt and Ruthie found 28 caches. We had previously found some of them.

 

 

 

I couldn’t let Kurt and Ruthie leave Florida without finding my “I Left My Heart In Fort Myers” geocache.

 

 

Friday, March 13^th

 

Yikes--Friday, the 13^th!! Kurt and Ruthie got a very early start on their trip back to Virginia. We enjoyed our time with them so very much and can’t believe how fast the days passed.

 

We had plans to join our friend, Brian, to look for a 5 stage multi cache that he had placed along Whiskey Creek River. He needed to do a maintenance run so we got to go with him---success for us was guaranteed!

 

 

 

Before we met Brian, we found the first stage under a bridge that crossed the creek. We knew that it was not accessible from a canoe.

 

 

 

Then we went to Brian’s house and loaded his canoe onto our geomobile for a short drive to the creek side.

 

 

 

Cordell and Brian did almost all the paddling and I got to sit back and enjoy the trip.

 

 

 

 

We saw some beautiful homes that were so large that I first thought they must be inns or small hotels. Brian told me that a lot of them we built on lots that where originally 2 houses were constructed.

 

 

I saw a gazebo that was covered in some type of vines.

 

 

I packed lunch for the three of us and we ate it in the canoe while stopped at a secluded place

 

 

At the final stage, the aquatic plants had grown so thickly that the guys could not paddle the canoe through them. Brian doubted that a kayak could even pass there. So, he got out of the canoe and pulled up some of the plants. Now there is an obvious goetrail for the next cacher to spot.

 

 

 

Saturday, March 14^th

 

Today was Pi Day and there was a special souvenir awarded to geocachers who found a particular type of cache.

 

 

So we made a quick trip out and visited two cache sites.

 

 

We stopped on the way back to the condo and I bought a very small apple pie which we ate in celebration of this day.

 

 

 We spend the remainder of the day resting