Sunday Morning
2022年5月1日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Sunday morning breakfast courtesy of Chef Greg, the off to the local downtown church ⛪️ for Sunday morning service with Greg and Patti. Lovely service and very welcoming 🙏.
Back to the mainもっと詳しく
The Blessing
2022年5月1日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
13:00 is the time everyone was waiting for when the shrimp boats would sail up alongside the Dock and be blessed, by the priest; funnily enough from the church Patti and Greg had just taken usもっと詳しく
Sunday Lunch
2022年5月1日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
So we found the perfect souvenir; a print of the red brested blue birds 🐦 that we see all the time flying around Greg and Patti's home.
So mission completed we headed off for lunch at
Theもっと詳しく
Down on the hotel's Private Beach
2022年5月1日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
What awaits across the boardwalk.
The Ritz-Carlton Condominiums (apartments/flats).
Sign post so we shouldn't get lost 😂
And then I nearly got knocked over by another Gopher Tortoise 🐢 as itもっと詳しく
Lunchtime gate crasher
2022年5月1日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
We were also joined at lunch by the Common Grackle Blackbird......... with its terrible table manners and its beady eye nearly always watching me.......
Hotel to the Golf Club
2022年5月1日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Stroll through the hotel in search of a little retail therapy.
A bath 🛁 full of rubber ducks 🦤
No Jayne sorry no time to sample the Spa. 😪
A quick reference and check list to the birds ofもっと詳しく
Last day at Fernandina Beach
2022年5月2日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
Last day at Greg and Patti's home 🏡 before moving on to Sarasota and all my new friends came to say goodbye:
The Little Blue Heron
Alligator
The American Robin.
I then had to post my postcardsもっと詳しく
We're on the road to nowhere
2022年5月2日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
Well to Sarasota actually.
Patti and Jayne set off first in Patti's electric Volkswagon.
Then Greg and I set off in his Nissan Infiniti.
On the way we saw:
- the common yellow American school bus.
-もっと詳しく
Feeding Time
2022年5月2日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
After a 4 hour drive with a stop we arrived on Longboat Key. As it was gone 8:00 in the evening we headed straight for Whitney's for a typical Diner meal in a converted auto maintenance garage.
Weもっと詳しく
First day in Sarasota
2022年5月3日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
Good morning from Long Boat Key in Sarasota.
This is our new view every morning over looking the Gulf of Mexico.
As we didn't get time to go food (grocery) shopping; I am fast becoming quite fluentもっと詳しく
Walking along the beach
2022年5月3日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
So after grocery shopping we headed back to the apartment and went for a shortish stroll along the beach.
The local inhabitants seem to be all part of the sandpiper family:
- Black Bellied Plover
-もっと詳しく
Sundown
2022年5月3日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
Fortunately the storm never really materialised we heard thunder but it didn't rain ........ and the sun came back.
However, when the sun goes down it doesn't stop.
But when it's gone other thingsもっと詳しく
Sun Rise
2022年5月4日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Early start for Greg and I as we drove down to Sarasota Bay to watch the sun rise over Sarasota.
After that we watched a couple of Great Blue Herons waiting patiently for any passing tasty morsels.もっと詳しく
Botanical Garden Visit
2022年5月4日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
After breakfast Greg and Patti took us to the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens a bonus there was a fabulous exhibition of Flowers, Poetry and Light by Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith.
Still in the Gardens.
2022年5月4日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
More photos from wandering around the Botanical Gardens.
Garden Wildlife
2022年5月4日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Like most gardens, various types of wildlife are attracted to them. Here is what we saw at the Botanical Gardens:
- Brown Anoles (Lizards) Not only will these lizards eat their own molted skin andもっと詳しく
On the Beach
2022年5月4日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Back on the beach ⛱️ and where better to get a selfie 🤳 with a Grear Blue Heron.
One man and his dog ....... not here in Florida, a Great Blue Heron is (fisher)man's best friend, I can't thinkもっと詳しく
Out Out
2022年5月4日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Dinner at Element in downtown Sarasota.
Cocktails 🍸 before dinner 🍽 a Pucker Up for the girls and a Smoked Manhattan for the boys.
I, unsurprisingly, went for the burger and chips while jayneもっと詳しく
Lazy Day
2022年5月5日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Today's the day Greg and Patti leave Jayne and I home alone, as they go off to Melbourne near Orlando (3-4 hour drive away) for a family wedding.
So some essential food shopping had to be done whilstもっと詳しく
Going our own way
2022年5月6日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
First day of being left to our own devices........
Booked an Uber to take us from our apartment at Seaplace on Longboat Key to St. Armands. and he dropped us off right outside Foxy Lady......and heもっと詳しく
Sarasota Bay Front
2022年5月6日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
The free trolley 🚎 bus took us from St. Armands over Bird Key and into Sarasota. We got off as the bus started to make its return journey and headed straight down to the Marina. Stopping (notもっと詳しく
What's in a name...
2022年5月6日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
Lovely afternoon walking around Sarasota Main Street and its luxurious (but expensive) shops. We then came across a bar called Mattisons City Grill, which was right by the trolley bus stop. So itもっと詳しく
Lido Key
2022年5月6日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Arriving back in St. Armands again!! We walked down to the beach at Lido Key to show Jayne all the Black Skimmers that were nesting there.
We then waited for an Uber (under the watchful eye 👁 of aもっと詳しく
Enforced Rest Day
2022年5月7日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌧 25 °C
Woke up to Thunder and Lightning ⛈️ this morning and waves pounding the beach. Guess we won't be going there any time soon. During a break in the rain 🌧 we quickly high tailed it to theもっと詳しく
Out at Last
2022年5月7日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
The weather finally changes for the better so Jayne and I can get out for a walk along the beach. Unbelievably the first thing we saw was a Red-bellied Woodpecker.
Down on the pitch we noticedもっと詳しく























































































































































































































































旅行者
Love this pic 💓💙💓💙
旅行者May the 4 th be with you 😉