Shelling On Sanibel!

Shelling On Sanibel!

Day Two of my beautiful grand daughter and her fiance’s visit to our home in Florida!

I just have to share with you, my dear readers our travel-log! 😉

What a joy she is to me and what fun to watch her reactions to a few unexpected “surprises”!

We started with breakfast on the water at the Boathouse! Yes, they are trying to smile even though we had a very early start to the day! 😉

I never tire of the sea gulls amidst all the shells on this island.  Sanibel Island is rated in the Travel Destinations as having the best shelling beaches!

Picking up shells….oh, and a alligator dried head….no, not on the beach…more on that later! 🙂  

Sanibel has an old light house as well as this oil house….more to come on that too!

Back on the Cape….Lunch was at Rumrunners Restaurant…again on the water and this was my grand daughter’s first look and taste of raw oysters!

Yep! raw oysters sliding down the throat straight from the shell….her fiance was kind enough to “loosen” the oyster from the shell for her. 😉

As you can tell….she did not like them!  She thought they were the worst thing she had tasted!

Her fiance loved them….or is that his reaction to her dislike? We all kind-of had a laugh at her expense….but after all, what are grandparents for? 🙂

But she was all smiles again when we set off for a sunset boat ride.

Can’t have a sunset ride without sipping on wine….in a paper cup of course! 🙂

Rookery Island was so cool with all the large birds nesting for the evening….including the frigate birds….yes, the bird with the huge red throat is…you guessed it…the male!  I think I like that humans are the opposite in beauty!  Did I say that out loud? My weird sense of humor.

Osprey in a tree!

Beautiful sunset right in the gulf of of Mexico.

Perfect ending for a perfect day!

More to come!