Monday's Clouds and Bicycle Wrecks

Today was a fun day for the two Grand Daughters. They rode bikes all afternoon, rested for a little while and ate dinner. Then they went out on the bikes again for a while. One girl had a chain come off, causing her to have an accident, scrapping her knee, her shoulder and bruising the other knee. Whew! This may be a scary summer. :-)

Just before sunset we drove toward the Lighthouse, but we could see rain coming down in that direction. It had been cloudy all day and 87 degrees with a SE wind.

We turned around and went out to the causeway instead. Just after we got out there, I could see pouring rain on Sanibel just across the causeway. But, it didn't last long at all.

Spoil Island B already had a lot of people parked there, so we went on to Spoil Island A. The clouds were really threatening and you could see heavy rain coming down in some areas, all we got there were a few sprinkles until we were leaving. Then it rained enough that we had the wipers on driving back to the island.



Looking toward the highest bridge and Ft Myers.



There was a very low tide. I saw one large King's Crown that was alive, so back he went.











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Sunday and Second Grand Daughter

This evening marked the arrival of the second Grand Daughter to join our summer festivities. Now, there is one 14 year old (in her words, "almost 15") and a 15 year old here for most of the summer. Are we having fun yet? Yes, we are!

When we left the island today around 3:30 to go to the airport, the causeway islands were packed with people. Cars were parked facing the water, in a row, all the way from one end to the other and on both sides. There were so many jet skis out; more than I've seen at one time. It was cloudy, but that didn't seem to be stopping anyone from enjoying their afternoon. It was 88 degrees with a South wind, the water in the Gulf is 86.


The photos don't really show how crowded it was. A little further on, the cars were parked really close together.




On the way back, a little after six, I was surprised that there was hardly anyone left on the causeway islands. I guess they had worn themselves out. The clouds looked really pretty.






Later this evening, we had a few things to do at Pointe Santo de Sanibel on West Gulf Drive. We got there just before sunset. So, you get a view of what could be seen of it at this time of year. It seemed to me, everyone staying there was out looking for shells because the tide was low. The larger group of people you can see at the end of the video is at the Tarpon Bay Public Beach area.


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