A Day at the Beach

When one is in Florida, it is, of course, mandatory that one visits at least one beach!  So on a nice sunny day Poppa chauffered Uncle Ernie and Aunt Lynda to Siesta Key.  We first went to Siesta Key Beach with Denis & Liz a few years ago.  It is now our favourite beach to visit when we are here and... we are not alone...  Siesta Key Beach has again (for the sixth time) been voted this year as the best beach in the USA.  It is always crowded and parking is always at a premium.  To make it worse, the parking lot is being re-vamped and a lot of it is currently un-usable.  We drove around and around and eventually we discovered a private parking lot..........

....... owned by this gentleman - who waved us in and said he had one spot left.  For $10.00 we could park there until midnight if we so desired.  Of course, we had no intention of staying that long - by the time we got to the beach, Aunt Lynda was already turning red.

I asked them to stand still for a few seconds while I got a picture, and then..........

.... off they went looking for shells for Uncle Ernie's grandchildren (are they brothers?).  We strolled for quite a while - then headed back to have supper and an early night.  But, we still had one more place we wanted to show them.  More on that later!