Provisioning and Sanibel Island

Weather today is pretty cold for Florida.  Waitress at tonights rib dinner apologized for the cold weather.  By the way, pretty good ribs but not as good as Ben's.  Did provisioning at Publix market, stuffed it into the fridge and everywhere else.  Boat is very loaded for cruising.  Able to spend some good time with Ann and John who have their boat in the next slip.  We will be connecting all the way to the Keys with them.  Plan to move to Ft Myers beach mooring field tomorrow.

Went to Sanibel Island with Ann this afternoon.  This island is well known for its abundance of shells and it didn't disappoint.  George and Frances on the beach.

Ann on the beach,

Typical Beach.

The places with a "beach" in the name (Panama city beach, Ft Myers Beach, etc) clean up the beach with machinery to pick up dead fish, seaweed and other undesirable stuff.  So those beaches are pure white sand with a few shells.  This beach is as it washes up from the Gulf, so along with shells are dead fish, seawead, sticks and other interesting stuff.

The have so many shells that they can use them like other places use gravel.