Boat Ride

This is my last weekend here in Florida and so the guys were cool enough to take me on a boat ride around. Can't really say you've been to Florida without spending a day just chilling in the middle of the ocean in the blistering florida sun... so I went with them. Besides, what was really my alternative? Stay in my room and read a book I've read twice already?

It turned to be another fun day. Pretty choppy water at first, but awesome ride nonetheless. We spotted a pod of dolphins and even saw several rays jumping out of the water. It was awesome. Nobody even knew that they did that... heck I've never seen rays do that even in Animal Kingdom. Of course, no one ever got it on film or camera. At one time, Steve jumped into the ocean to try to play with the dolphins.. but I guess they were only interested in playing with the boat's wake and quickly swam away just when he was approaching them.

We had lunch at Barnacle Phil's at North Captiva. It's a small restaurant in an island... dont really know if it's accessible by land. Probably not. They served some pretty mean jambalaya and some really tasty ribs. The whole place had 1 dollar bills stapled all over the walls and cieling as mementos from previous customers. Of course we all did ourselves, but instead of clipping another dollar bill... I used a peso bill. They now have the first and only philippine peso bill there... signed by yours truly.

Took a pic of this direction sign post at the docks...



And then this egret(?) who was so distracted by some fish bait at the back of the nearby boat that he let me come really close and take a nice pic...



An otter actually beat him to the fish bait. I quickly ran around to try to get a shot and I startled the little guy and he was actually staring at me for a good 3 seconds and I couldnt get the camera working. By the time it was on, the little flipper had already jumped out of the boat and back into the ocean. Would have been nice to show it to my daughter.

This is the boat docked at North Captiva...



And this is a pic of a mini schnauzer that just happened to be in a small novelty shop there. If my landlord would've allowed me, this is the breed that I would've gotten my daughter. Well, ok maybe my second choice after a Jack Russell Terrier.