Flight of the Eagle: Weekly Update

Time for whats turning out to be our weekly update. From Palm Harbor we headed to Largo to see Bobby and Carol, just in time for Gavin's 13^th birthday party at the Golden Corral, woo whoo! Since we were in Largo we watched the Pats game at Cookie and Sue's with Angelo. Cookie cooked up some excellent grouper and gulf shrimp, great time.

Lounging at Bobby's pool

Golden Corral, Fine dining...

The Largo Girls

Beach day with Cookie and Sue

and Angelo!

On Monday we moved on to Sarasota. We ate dinner and spent the night at the Elks there, explored Siesta Key, the sand here really does rival Wingaersheek.

Skyway Bridge

Siesta Key

Soft, white sand and Sandi

From there we checked out Nokomis beach and Venice beach and landed three days at the state park in Osprey, great park with lots of hiking trails. I got to see my first bald eagle! flew by me while I was taking out the trash, sorry I didn't have my camera with me.

Dead fish on Caspersen Beach, Red tide kills fish here.
We did find a couple of sharks teeth.

Love sidewalk dining in downtown Venice

The turtles are very friendly here!

You have to walk through the outdoor bar at Sharky's
restaurant to get to the pier. Sharky has a good thing going!

Making friends

Entrance to downtown

We are currently spending the weekend at the Venice Elks, water and electricity for 20 bucks a night. We made it in time for Friday afternoon barbeque and Friday evening fish fry, really good food.

Sandi got some wheels today (thanks Callee) so we'll be expanding our exploration range. We have next week booked in Oscar Sheareer state park so the car will be great for taking day trips. We do like this area. Its not too crowed but still has plenty of amenities and downtown is special with outdoor dinning and free parking.