Woke up around 6am excited to see the start of the Tour
de France this morning. Got up, started the coffee and went on the back porch
so I wouldn’t wake up anyone. I powered on the computer and got to typing away
for the blog. After some time I checked out some email and realized it was
8:30am. I thought – Crap – I meant to turn on NBCSports to watch the Tour. Oh
well, luckily they had a rerun of the 6:30am start at 8:30am, so I just turned
on the TV with no noise and started enjoying.
Mike woke up and came out ready to load the car. He was
the first one up a little after 8:30am. It wasn’t shortly after and all the
others started popping up in the kitchen. The kids slept in still some while
Mike and Cathy finished packing their car. After all the good byes and hugs,
they headed back north around 10am.
The Hinsons and Schiffers basically lollygagged the
remainder of the day. The four of us adults ended up going to Burdine's for lunch, whilte the boys and Olivia took off fishing for a few hours before
returning with a horde of snappers. Darrel, Tobi and I ended up going up to the
bridge by Captain Hook’s around 1pm and fished their till almost 5pm. Tobi was
the fish master of the day as she reeled them in one by one. She managed not
only to catch the most, but also the biggest.
Back at the house Anna and the kids were laying low and
taking some naps. Everyone was a little shot from all the early rises, hot sun,
salt and hot water. About 30 minutes after our return LT and I went down to
Sombrero Beach and cast netted for some greenbacks. He and I threw the nets out
until 7:30pm. We managed to catch a ton of pilchers, some pin fish, several
baby finger mullets and ONE seahorse (by accident). We luckily noticed the
little fellow squirming in the sand after we emptied our net. What a fantastic
sea creature? We put him back in a protected area.
Once we got home, Anna was making and preparing the
snapper and lionfish that were caught earlier in the day and the day prior.
Tobi made all the fixings for the tacos, chopping onions, cutting tomatoes, and
prepping all the cheese and salsas. Darrel stripped all the corn on the cobs
from the prior day. Everything was ready, but it seemed like forever before the
fish was cooked on the grill. I think it was because we were all very hungry.
Finished dinner and we all jaw jacked for the remainder
of the evening before heading in early as we all needed to get up at 5:30am in
the morning for a fishing charter.
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