So we were on the boat and couldn't find a place to tie up. We decided we'll go under the bridge onto the gulf side and maybe there will be somewhere to dock. But look, there's construction even on the water! Oops, I mean de-construction. They built the new bridge and are slowly removing the old one. Noise and debris and wind, oh my!
The rental market has been good to us renters, but when I saw this sign out of the sun - well, it made me pause. The beautiful palms and buildings in the reflection seem so innocent next to the sign. Innocent and pretty like a spider's web!
Perhaps not the most "beautiful" picture, but fun. We have had the very best restaurant recommendations from our wonderful neighbors and when they recommended a bar for the recent Rays' baseball scene, well, we HAD to go! Only it turns out the bar was right next to the stadium and mobbed. My what a "scene" it really was!! But without a place to park, and unwilling to pay $30 for the privilege, we decided a beach bar in our neighborhood would have to be good enough. It was :-D
Madeira Beach may be the proud host of the only McDonald's with a dock. Yup, that is the McDonald's flag flying on that dock. They don't own the dock, but no-one seems to mind the boat traffic. And at this lovely sunset I witnessed a boat stop for just such a thing.
Rich and I ventured into downtown Madeira Beach (one beach down from us). Wow. A bikini-clad young'un skateboarded past us as we dined on incredibly fresh, delicious fish at Walt's Fish Shack. Sign juxtaposed to sign and every beach chatchki possible screamed tourism. When I saw this Bikini Key store I couldn't resist sharing. It's too early in the season for the hordes of tourists, but they are ready!
I've been doing lots of driving to meetings and not enough sightseeing to post. So I took the camera on one of our morning beach walks. Needless to say, we were not the first there!
Florida seems to a have a free-spirited nature when it comes to colors, as this canoe demonstrates. And they surely are not limited to canoes. I have seen quite a few distinctly designed automobiles as well!
It was our anniversary on Saturday and we decided to take our neighbor's suggestion and dine at the Salt Rock Grill in Indian Shores. We had a lovely evening. A little champagne, a view of the water and a lot of fabulous seafood made it easy to have fun.
So we get the Beach Beacon newspaper delivered to our house every Wednesday and this is the second or third time I've seen this guy's advertisement. I found it a little incredible!
Yesterday Rich and I discovered that the public beach access to the gulf was only 4 very-walkable blocks away from our house. Yipee!! So of course I had to go swimming. Warm water and shallow for quite a distance. Then this morning when the sun was rising I took a walk and found some fun birds enjoying the water and sand.
Moving from Prague to hotels for a month to Tampa took more out of me than I expected. I would wake up in hotels and have to take a few moments to figure out where I was - and most importantly where the bathroom was. Now I get to wake up and check out this view. Instantly soothing it is!
The house we are renting is lovely and we've discovered wonderful coffee. We'll see if the organic eggs we bought live up to Prague's free-range, orange yolked wonders. Our landlord's decorating tastes/abilities are in question however. Just look at how she painted this brand new dock. Hmmm.
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