What's the word, hummingbird?: Part V Caladesi Island & Sunken Garden

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Today's program? Island visit!!! I'm glad I sorted out some stuff before getting here since so it only took little effort once I had kind of an idea of where to go to sort out the rest. Drove about 15 minutes to Honeymoon island to get the ferry to Caladesi island where I wanted to walk the nature trail. They told us about hurricanes and fire damages but I figured I'll go for it anyway. And I was the only idiot going. First sign I saw (and they also told us about it on the ferry) was Caution rattlesnakes. F*** me. Haha it would soon turn out that my worst enemy would be mosquitos though. And whatever else bit me on my head and also next to my elbow that made a pretty big bump appear haha. Going over my head with my hand felt like I had hit a branch or something which I was sure I did not or did I? Mosquitos was new as well, they usually don't bother me but since I was the only idiot walking down here in probably a long time and so they must have seen a buffet walking and all thought: ATTACK!! Haha also my flipflops gave me a blister. These cheap, a bit over sized flipsflops that give me a blister each time. Got them in Australia last year for a few bucks as an temporary solution. That's it. I need new ones!!! The rest of the walk was so so, I did see a beatiful white great egret in between some palmtrees. It looked like an angel and I wondered why it was there instead of near the water. Finished the walk and went after the beach, where I was fascinated by these birds that kept diving into the water. Sometimes they caught a little fish but mostly nothing. Read my book for a bit and took the ferry back.

Don't think this was the paradise papa had in mind :-(.

Hurricane and fire damage.

Fascinating birds

Went back just in time. Started raining on the way back in the ferry or as I heard some one else say; here comes the sprinkles. And that was all it was, couple of drops really. But one of the ferry guys said it would rain at 530pm, a big red line was crossing the area on the map. It looked fine when I got back, so went to the pool for a quick dip and read a few more pages of my book. Until the skies turned dark gray and I packed up and went back to the room. It started raining when I was just back in, short but heavy rain.

Felt like having pizza and there was one pretty close. Was seated at the bar again with 3 screens in front of me and 3 on the other side. People kept clapping, must be a local team playing tonight haha. And yup, just looked up at which team was playing while typing this and saw a G logo which I know is Florida Gators. Goooo Gators!! But where's my pizza!!!!!! Haha and there it was. Delicious and took a third with me for the next day as I was full. Nom nom! Went to Walmart and Target after for my after dinner walk and bought bug repellent just in case I go on another walk haha. Back to the hotel for another great night, best sleep I've had all week. Quiet and dark room! And just after midnight I booked my hotel for the next day. Hopefully it's another good sleep! Fingers crossed!

Had another good night sleep, packed my stuff, had breakfast (included) and off I went! First stop: Sunken Gardens, a good 40 minutes away but on the way to my next destination. There was a whole history behind these gardens, but I'll let you Google it. It was a nice, peaceful garden and the trees reached the skies!! Great morning walk!