Fisherman's Cache not Catch

Yes, we are back on track and went one for one. We honed our skills and went after a cache called, "fisherman's cache". Here are a few pictures to shown the cache.
We took the Canadian pen and left the world's loudest horn. Life is just good...... We then took a little break and did a little kite surfing at East Beach. I went and then Cheryl went, we took pictures of each other. That's me with the yellow, green one.

That's Cheryl with the pink, white one. You can see us better if you click on the pictures.Like I said not catch.....that is what Cheryl did while fishing tonight.
We even had a guy take a little video of us kite surfing.

0 for 3 SKUNKED

The day started out like a pretty nice, sunny and great day. We had a nice breakfast and a bike ride up to the big bridge and watched the boats. We stopped at the Haas' to see how they were doing and all was fine with them too.

Then the big idea to try and find 3 geochaches was put into motion. We did so good at finding the one a couple of days ago! The first one was near the fishing pier and all we found was a big nothing, but at least we got a picture of ourselves....
Then we headed for the jungle on the north tip of the island. What could be so hard about that??? Did I forget to mention fire ants, bad directions, sand spurs and heat!! Over two hours of wandering and wandering and all we got was, blood, sweat and tears. Here is Cheryl just before her knee went bad....
We made it out alive and decided to head back to camp, while we were still in one piece. While making dinner we even got to see a dolphin swim by and had a cool visitor who seemed to want to check out the steaks.

We ended the day with a beauty sun set and a campfire, while we sang Kum Ba Yah. It was just enough to take the sting out of the fire ant bites.

Off To The Beach

We seem to be sleeping just a bit later each morning, must be not having an alarm clock. The weather has just been getting better and better. We started our day with a little breakfast cooked on the griddle. We even had some company with the egret that walked by.

We then headed for the beach and just relaxed, being it was almost 1:00 when we finished breakfast! You can see by the pictures the beaches are very crowded here, but we squeezed in anyhow. Cheryl looks like she might be getting used to this life style.

We finished the day with a wonderful dinner over at Terry and Kathy's cooked over a roaring wood fire. The meats included rib eye steak and fresh venison, along with pasta salad, slaw, homemade beets and Indian corn! WOW....what a feast!

Of course we ended the meal with a beautiful sun set........

DeSoto In Paradise

Finally settled in and having some fun.... Set up the little Bungalow By The Sea and then hit the water. Remember as you go through the blog, that you can click on the pictures to see them full size!
One of the first thing we did was head out into the grass flats with our kayaks and do a little netting. Low and behold and within the first couple on net sweeps......
YEP!!!!! HORSES..... This always puts a smile on my face. Set up a small tank back at camp and sit and watch the little beauties when I am just hanging out. Here is a shot of their stable.
Another thing we enjoy doing is called Geocaching. We use our GPS to search for hidden treasures all over the world. These treasures are small containers with a log book and other items of all types. We rode our bikes to East Beach here on the island and then headed out on foot along the Gulf Beach. The GPS can get you to withing 15 or 20 feet of the cache, but you need good eyes to make the final discovery. Here is a picture of the cache in it's hiding spot....can you make it out???
Here is what it looks like once it is open. We took a fishing bobber and left a sea bean. There are at least 4 more caches here on the island, we may find them all if we get lucky.


click on the pick and you can see better what was in the CACHE. We got back to camp and decided to take a kayak trip around to the other side of the island and visit the other Haas family. Here is a shot of the Ferret telling me about the BIG ONE that got away. Also a shot the the famous Fish Wagon, which he rides in while he thinks up his fish stories.

Ok till next time and of course a Florida west coast sunset to end the day. Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the ride.

Atlanta to Florida

We started the day leaving High Falls State Park at around 8:00am and heading south on I75. We had wonderful sunny skies and slowly watched the temps. climb from 26* in the morning to 72* by late afternoon. We couldn't help ourselves and need a BBQ stop!




It was wonderful to be driving over the water out to Fort DeSoto on the Gulf of Mexico.




We got to the camp by 4:00 and set up, then stopped over to visit Terry and Kathy. We ended the day with a west coast of Florida sunset.

A Day At Bentleaf Drive

We arrived at Jamie's and Melissa's this morning and lightened Dreamfinder of about 500 pounds of baby clothes, baby items and baby goodies. We then all sat down to haas' famous bacon, egg and cheese sandwiches! Got to give Dreamfinder a much needed bath at the car wash and then back to the house for of course, more eating and hanging out.

The only other business of the day was putting a small downpayment on our new BBQ restaurant. Here is the gold mine....
Off to Florida in the morning!

We Have Arrived Red Top Mountain GA

It was a little rough trying to wash the windshield this morning at the Flying J, in VA.




I don't know, I think we look almost as big as the truck.

WE finally got under way on Friday morning late after a bad day of sickness. The weather was cold(12*) and windy. We made it to a Flying J in VA and spent the night there. We woke to 17* under clear and sunny skies the drive from there was smooth and we are feeling much better. Arrived at Red Top Mountain and settled in for a quiet dinner and a campfire. Temps. reached 58*.
We will be heading to Jamie's and Melissa's in the morning. GREAT to be back on the road!!!