Clearwater Beach, FL

Friday Nov 23 - Day of Rest

This part of the Gulf coast has similar sand to the pan handle; nice, white, powdery and squeaky.  It is a joy to walk on.

Although the temperature was in the low 70's, the beach still had a lot of people, more than I would have expected.  I guess, though, that the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend can explain the number of people and the buskers and entertainers on the beach.

We managed to find a Hancock Bank in Indian Rocks so we took the Sun Coast Trolley and walked the couple of miles to cash the money order  to cover the damages from the accident during the Blue Angels Air Show.  At least that is behind us now and the financial impact was minimal.

While crossing the bridge to the mainland, we saw Second Noelle and The Bar-B docked at the Holiday Inn Marina.  Before heading back we stopped by but nobody was aboard.  We had lunch there at Iguanas but still no Linda and Ray.  Oh well, it would have been a great surprise but we have to wait to see them some other time.

Tomorrow we are heading for Treasure Island only a couple of hours away.  We will stay there for a week or so in order to get some routine maintenance down on the engines and to spend some fun time with our friends from Windsor who have a condo in St. Pete's Beach.

Is Christmas that close??

I'll send another update from there once I get a few photos for you.